Curriculum Vitae

September 05, 2018

❌ Not seeking work

About

Determined to make the web a better place with beautiful, maintainable, accessible and thought-out software applications.

4+ years’ software engineering experience with some of Australia’s largest companies.
Primary focus on modern Javascript web-application development. In-depth experience with the React/Redux/Mobx/Webpack ecosystems. Working knowledge in React Native and Ruby on Rails.
Typically thrive in empowered, self-sufficient and multidisciplinary teams. Keen interest in process, lean philosophy and improving the way we work.

Mar 2018 - present (contract)

Working on a project team to build a completely new weather experience for BOM’s general public audience.
One of Australia’s top 40 websites by traffic.
Tooling: Typescript, React, Mobx with mobx-state-tree, Jest/Enzyme, ES6+, styled-components.
Interesting challenges:
- managing tree-structured state
- finding the right abstractions for reusable components
- working with a medium-to-large team to agree on long-term technical decisions

(side project, on hold) June 2017 - Present

Building the next generation of surf forecasting.
Built on a Ruby on Rails API (my first major Rails project) and a React/Redux/Webpack client-side ecosystem.
Multiple third-party integrations involved, including: NOAA, BOM, PlanetOS and Willyweather.

Mid-level Front-end Developer on a React/Redux/Webpack web application. Key activities:

Tooling: React, Redux, Webpack, ES6/Babel, server-side React rendering
Built out a hybrid native application using Expo and React Native.
Onboarding new developers, maintaining Jest unit testing coverage
Migration of our legacy front-end app out of an unmaintainable Knockout/JQuery set-up to a more manageable React/Redux ecosystem.

Jan ‘14 - Nov ‘16

Front-end feature development in SCRUM delivery teams:

Regularly owned front-end estimation and delivery of user stories end-to-end with considerable complexity and time constraints.
Focussed on improving quality through: objective architectural decisions and discussion, sharing ideas for writing readable and maintainable Javascript and presenting ideas back to the wider FED team.
Assisted product owners, designers and UX to design solutions that maximise business value from more effective development effort.
Attended conferences and completed training such as: Deloitte FED training (mostly React & Angular), Pluralsight courses (i.e. Crockford’s JS Good Parts) and meetups/conferences (MelbJS, LASTConf).
Helped design/introduce a feature-based Git workflow (‘git flow’) for multiple clients.

6m contract, 2015

Part-time (and sole) full-stack PHP developer for the incentive marketing agency’s proprietary software, Flashpoint, used by sales teams at BMW, Nissan and Samsung in Australia.
Technologies used: PHP, Symfony, Doctrine ORM, LAMP stack, Wordpress, Javascript/JQuery.

2013 - Dec ‘16

Worked for myself from university as a web developer and digital consultant to small businesses.
Provided services from as basic as a Wordpress/Squarespace build to a custom Rails application.
Clients: Damgar Group, Gaffneys Logistics, Serenity Face & Body, All City Bathrooms & Kitchens, Memla Landscape Architects

2014 (Mobile Device Technician)

Heavy focus on best practices in software development: writing reusable, readable and maintainable code, continuous improvement and quality (through pull requests, pair programming and regular team catch-ups). Opinions heavily influenced by the Rails Doctrine, Clean Code and Eloquent JS.
Strong interest in wider front-end community involvement and contributing back to open source projects. Regular attendee at MelbJS and Ruby Melbourne meetups. Participant in Hacktoberfest.
Managing teams and workflows around building software. Inspired by many things/people, to name a few: Agile manifesto, Lean philosophy, Basecamp, Ben Horowitz, Seth Godin and Paul Graham.
Outside of work I generally spend well away from my computer (mainly surfing/camping).

2012 - 2015

Software engineer, primarily focussed on Javascript web application development.
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