Experience

Amber Electric

• Australia
• Services for Renewable Energy
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Product Manager

  • Dec 2022 - Present

• Lead Software Engineer

  • Aug 2020 - Dec 2022



Cogent.co

• Australia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Software Engineer

  • Nov 2018 - Jul 2020



Raisebook

• Australia
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Apr 2016 - Nov 2018

  Raisebook is a online platform that gives sophisticated investors access to early stage ASX and private investments. As the Chief Technology officer, I have been responsible for customer validation and product development, UX design and software architecture; as well as being involved in product strategy. Raisebook's client facing website is built in Ruby on Rails and React. Behind the scenes we employ a set of event-driven microservices written in a mix of Ruby, Node.js and Elixir, bound together by AWS SQS, GraphQL and Go-based AWS lambdas. The site runs in Docker containers running on AWS ECS. Raisebook adheres to the Twelve-factor app methodology: https://12factor.net/



Digital Mapping Solutions

• Contract Frontend Developer

  • Jan 2011 - Jul 2016

  Digital Mapping Solutions is an Geographic Information System that is deployed via the browser. They provide GIS services to a large number of local governments around Australia. I designed and built the new HTML5 based front-end for IntraMaps 8 using Backbone.js. I also helped design the API which was the cornerstone of their MapControl system, which embedded GIS information on council website. Digital Mapping Solutions is an Geographic Information System that is deployed via the browser. They provide GIS services to a large number of local governments around Australia. I designed and built the new HTML5 based front-end for IntraMaps 8 using Backbone.js. I also helped design the API which was the cornerstone of their MapControl system, which embedded GIS information on council website.



MadPilot Productions

• Owner

  • Oct 2000 - Apr 2016

  MadPilot Production is my software engineering consultancy. It is also the entity that I developed 88 Miles - an online time tracking application, that I sold in 2016. MadPilot Production is my software engineering consultancy. It is also the entity that I developed 88 Miles - an online time tracking application, that I sold in 2016.



Redbubble

• Australia
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Contract Software Engineer

  • Sep 2014 - Mar 2016

  As part of my contract at Redbubble, I was a full-stack developer working in the UX team using both Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. As part of the UX team, I helped rearchitect the the frontend application to improve engagement rates. Redbubble is test driven - both in their software, and customer validation. My team brought in "design war rooms" where we would aggressively iterate on UX designs, bringing in customers for research, iterating on feedback and releasing changes, sometimes in the same day. We also used A/B testing, and analytics to assess the effectiveness of our UX changes.



Cogent

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Contract Web Developer

  • May 2014 - Mar 2016

  I was a contract full-stack developer for Cogent. During my time there I was contracted out to Redbubble and the Eliminate Dengue project.

• Contract Web Developer on the Eliminate Dengue project

  • May 2014 - Aug 2014

  The Eliminate Dengue project was a publishing platform supporting scientists and residents of areas with a high incidence of dengue virus. The platform relied heavily on video, and audio, so we had to work closely with the video team to deliver video to users in low-bandwidth, high-latency areas.The project was agile, system was built in Ruby on Rails and Angular.js.



The University of Western Australia

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Guest Lecturer

  • Jul 2010 - Nov 2010

  Guest lectured, took tutorials and helped write the exam for the Ruby on Rails component of Internet Technology CITS 4230. Guest lectured, took tutorials and helped write the exam for the Ruby on Rails component of Internet Technology CITS 4230.