About me
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Engineering Experience
Approx 30,000 hours
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Achievements
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SEP 2025: Google Cloud Certified
Generative AI Leader Certification
MAR 2024: Completed NASA ARSET training
Introduction to Lightning Observations and Applications
NOV 2023: Completed NASA ARSET training
Spectral Indices for Land and Aquatic Applications
OCT 2022: Completed NASA ARSET training
Accessing and Analyzing Air Quality Data from Geostationary Satellites
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January 2021 - Present
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Senior Geospatial & Frontend Technical LeadKablamo
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Firestory Technical Director
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Tech Lead -> Senior Tech Lead
Duties:
- Host the fortnightly frontend catchup where we discuss emerging frontend technology and trends and showcase frontend work our team has achieved.
- Mentor frontend developers to reach their full potential
- Consult on the geospatial projects
- Rapid prototypes for client tenders
- Engineering team design
- Project scope validation and estimation
- C4 Model architecture design
- Infrastructure design
- Build partnerships with complimentary businesses
- Lead teams during planning, discovery and implementation phases of client engagements
- Get developers excited about 3D visualisations and geospatial applications
- Build out and manage our geospatial knowledge base
- Interview candidates for our geospatial and frontend teams
- Work with clients during engagements to make sure we're delivering on their needs
- Champion lean agile practices
- Help the team integrate AI best practices into our software development process
Experience:
- Led the technical integration of Firestory into ESRI's ArcGIS platform as part of ESRI Partnership
- Worked with the Office of the NSW Chief Scientist to develop software for Forestry Corp to model Heavy Plant dry firefighting impact on bushfires through the Natural Hazards Technology Program
- Typescript
- NextJS
- Drizzle
- tRPC
- NodeJS
- AWS Step Functions
- Lambda
- SQS
- Event Bridge
- Led the team to deliver a predictive capability for FRNSW to help them forward plan for periods with increased incident risk.
- Typescript
- NextJS
- Drizzle
- tRPC
- ShadCN UI
- AWS Lambda
- SQS
- Event Bridge
- Postgres/PostGIS
- Architected and led the team delivering capabilities for Firestory
- Configurable Incident management system integration for fire agencies
- Automated Remote Fire Detection using Australia-centric ML and thermal satellite data
- Fire Prediction Capability Expansion for model swapping and comparison
- Scenario Modelling for hazard reduction exercises with live weather
- Automated Incident Comms Tool using Generative AI for multi-language bulletins
- Watch Zone Notifications for area-specific event alerts
- Event Driven, Serverless, Modular architecture
- AWS EventBridge, SQS, Step Functions, Lambda, ECS/Fargate
- NodeJS, Go, Typescript, Python, React, NextJS, DrizzleORM, Postgres/PostGIS
- Led the team to deliver an Automated Fireground Aviation Safety Assessment tool for NSW RFS which integrated BOM and Airservices Australia data. In the process, I became an SME on Aviation Weather Forecast data.
- AWS Lambda
- Golang
- React
- Typescript
- Led the frontend team to deliver a 3D fire prediction tool for NSW RFS (Athena). NSW RFS Athena
- Typescript
- Mapbox
- React
- Golang
- Phoenix fire prediction engine
- AWS
- Developed software that helps identify and report on cases of child exploitation (ICMEC)
- NextJS
- Postgres
- Built an internal AI Transcription tool for the ABC
- Typescript
- React
- NodeJS
- Built the notification mechanism for the ABC News App to send news notifications to Apple and Android apps
- Typescript
- React
- NodeJS
- AWS SNS
- APNS
- FMS
- Lambda
- Delivered the Triple J Unearthed website upgrade and 2021 Hottest 100 voting website, contributing to the ABC 'Presentation Layer' design system
- Typescript
- React
- GraphQL
- Exhibited at AFAC 2023, 2024 and the 2024 Office of the NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer Commercialisation showcase
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2016-December 2020
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Senior Software Engineer / (Engineering) Head of VisualiserPropeller Aero
Duties:
- Build and maintain 3D drone mapping visualisation tool leveraging React, Redux and CesiumJS
- Build and maintain the backend service written in Koa serving both REST and GraphQL endpoints
- Mentor junior developers on software best practices and run workshops on the technologies and methodologies we use such as React, Redux, Node, Koa, Express, TDD.
- Scrum master for a small team of developers
- Write and maintain webpack and CI tooling and configuration to facilitate complex frontend builds
- Deliver software demos to the company to showcase work delivered
- Lead hiring interviews for Software Engineers, QA Engineers, Head of Engineering, Product Owners
- Facilitate regular team retros and feedback sessions
- Run One-to-Ones with the engineers
- Champion best practices and standards
- Visit customers to understand their needs and communicate back to the teams
- Translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Build technical roadmaps and documentation to facilitate modernisation of an aging codebase
- Build feature usage dashboards so we can make informed data-driven decisions
- Write Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform to generate the AWS cloud infrastructure to host our applications
- Architect simple solutions to complex problems with the team of engineers
Skills snapshot:
- Expert level React
- Expert level Node
- Strong mapping skills
- CesiumJS
- CesiumJS
- Resium
- Leaflet
- Mapbox
- Tech/Team Leading
- Developer Experience
- Agile ceremony facilitation
- OKR planning
- Mentoring
- Stakeholder management
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2014-2016
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Senior Software EngineerMi9/Channel 9
Duties:
- Work as part of a scrum team to create and maintain the whole of Channel 9's network of websites
- Leading teams to deliver these websites
- Set the technical direction of the teams to ensure we're moving forward and taking advantage of best practices and new technology
- Helped deliver the first webpack built website in the network and help transition away from gulp and grunt
- Worked on the component library for Channel 9 to help share code across different codebases
- Pushed for React adoption within the company and lead the team building yourmovies.com.au in React
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2013-2014
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Software EngineerPace International, Sydney office
Duties:
- Work as part of a small remote team to deliver Foxtel iQ3 UI software written in HTML, CSS and JS
- Deliver software demos to customer stakeholders
- Work with other vendors to align on delivery and usage of APIs
- Work with set top box hardware to diagnose and solve issues
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2010-2013
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Software EngineerAsidua, Belfast
Duties:
- Work as part of scrum teams on many projects across the business
- Work onsite with customer teams to deliver software projects
- Communicate progress with external stakeholders on behalf of the business
Notable projects:
- Built a testing framework from scratch for set top box hardware in Perl + HTML/CSS/JS
- Rebuilt the BTVision set top box UI software with a focus on reducing memory footprint in JS
- Worked on high speed communications ordering tool for well known telecommunications company in Java + Angular JS
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2005-2010
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Bachelors of Engineering in Computer ScienceQueens University Belfast
Java DemonstratorQueens University Belfast
Database AdministratorCentral Services Agency Northern Ireland
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