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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Developed a Ruby on Rails integration with a complex Australian Tax Office (ATO) API. Converted 40% of manually filed tax returns to fully automated submission.

Wellington Region, New Zealand

Ruby on Rails feature development of job seeker portal, including implementation of a complex ranked job / employee matching algorithm with stringent requirements.

Embedded C software review to prove its safety to a military standard. This involved extensive forensic analysis, understanding the original intention behind code modules in order to document the design.

Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington, New Zealand

Platform team, developing features to aid scalability, tackle platform wide technical debt and monitor performance.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

(Formerly known as Powershop HQ)- Senior Android developer- Introducing development patterns to simplify codebase and promote quality and flexibility- Close collaboration with Design and iOS teams

Darmstadt Area, Germany

Senior Android developer in a small cross functional team for a social activity planning app- Coordinating mobile development (Android and iOS) between local full time team and outsourced contractors.- Introduced new quality control features to the app (Unit Testing (UT) with JUnit, Dependency Injection (DI) using Dagger 2)- Introduction of principles of Scrum, with short achievable stories, encouragement of full stack ownership of features

Wellington, Nz And Remote

Lead developer in small team for company’s flagship product (MapSight)- Senior developer of Android/iOS based app (Spike), interacting with proprietary hardware stack via bluetooth- Large team (6 dev, 2 test, User Experience, Design) using Scrum methodologyInvolved in library based design to maximise re-use across 3 products- Upskilling of junior devs through code review, peer programming, mentoring- Learning of a new language (Objective C) and associated frameworks in short notice to deliver value earlyModification of existing .Net product for integration with General Electric proprietary software package- Experience working with large international corporate development team- Product experienced the most successful quarter in company history following developmentFeature development on Windows CE and desktop based software/hardware system- Championing adoption of NUnit based Unit Tests and mocks using Moq- Refactoring of code to introduce risk averse changes to the product- Remote support and diagnosis of corporate customer issues

Lead developer for multilingual embedded user interface:- Requirements gathered from internal stakeholders, taking into account current and future regulations in different target countries. - Formal requirements document and User Interface (UI) mockups.- Documented design produced, collaborating with developers of other part of the larger system. - Developed in a team environment, using CVS to hold project and library code. Produced custom code generation tools to allow non-technical staff to input into final UI text, reducing required developer support.- Unit and Integration Tests Researched, designed and implemented Continuous Integration server, to automate Unit Tests for the product, and Integration Tests for interfacing software. Extended this to automatically generate code documentation and deploy it to an Apache webserver.Modify an existing C# application to be multi-user enabled, by designing and implementing a client-server architecture. Currently deployed in a pilot site in China.Refactoring of an embedded C code base to enable transmission and reception of a proprietary transmission protocol and minor addition of functionality. Formalise and carry out regression tests. This was successfully carried out and is currently in production with an international market.

Preparation for university entry to international GECCO Artificial Intelligence competition.Experimentation with optimisation of modular controllers for a racing car driver using a car racing simulation (TORCS) as the environment.Involved developing a distributed computing system for Evolutionary Learning Classifier Systems (LCS) iterations.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Tramping ClubTechnically focused Bachelor of Science degree, focused on Software Engineering (major).

Computer Science, Math, Physics, Electronics