As the CTO at Propeller Aero, I lead our Product and Engineering team; a talented group of product, designers and engineers who research and build our 3D mapping platform and dirt-ready GPS hardware. With over 10 years of experience in the startup world, I love all things product and engineering and have played a pivotal role in and founded a range of startups across a number of diverse industries, giving me a deep understanding of the startup ecosystem.Beyond my work at Propeller Aero, I am an active member of the Sydney startup scene. I'm passionate about helping aspiring entrepreneurs succeed, and I am a regular mentor and coach to those looking to get into the startup ecosystem.Propeller’s mission is to provide real-time earthworks tracking for everyone. We are a global leader in 3D mapping and data analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves, with visual tools that everyone can use from any device, anywhere, anytime.Our customers are essential workers, industrious men and women who pave the roads we drive on, design the landfills we use, and manage our natural resources.Our team have the freedom to approach, own, and solve problems creatively. If you want to chat more about product and engineering at Propeller, distributed web, IoT or AI feel free to reach out to me.
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Chief Technology OfficerPropeller Jun 2023 - PresentSurry Hills, Nsw, Au -
Head Of EngineeringPropeller May 2021 - Jun 2023Surry Hills, Nsw, AuPropeller’s mission is to provide real time earthworks tracking for everyone. We are a global leader in 3D mapping and data analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves, with visual tools that everyone can use from any device, anywhere, anytime.Our customers are essential workers, industrious men and women who pave the roads we drive on, design the landfills we use, and manage our natural resources.Our team have the freedom to approach, own, and solve problems creatively.
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Software EngineerPropeller Apr 2020 - May 2021Surry Hills, Nsw, AuWorked across the Hardware and Visualiser teams with a focus on designing and building scalable event driven systems that can support real-time insights and analytics on large volumes of time series data streamed from our DirtMate products.• Full Stack software engineering working in React, NodeJS and Python on AWS.• Design, Build and Manage the event-driven streaming pipeline for Propeller's DirtMate product to ensure timely and fault tolerant processing using tools including Timescale, SQS / SNS and protobuf.• Design and deliver analytics applications in collaboration with Design and Product teams that deliver up-to-date analytics in mobile and poor quality network environments.
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Senior Software EngineerAimee Blue Oct 2018 - Apr 2020Sydney, New South Wales, AuBuilding Aimee! A world first virtual receptionist. Combining the greatest modern technologies into a seamless visitor experience. -
Founder - TechnicalPolibase Jul 2018 - Dec 2018Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AuPolibase is a SaaS product that automates regulatory change management and compliance obligations across an entire organisation using a sophisticated data-lake of Australian regulatory, legislative and media information.As the technical founder I architected and built the event-driven serverless platform that combined NLP, categorisation and automatic summarisation methods to digest and analyse in near-real-time very large unstructured sets of media and publications to create targeted and relevant digests that alert impactful upcoming or current changes in regulation. -
Machine Vision EngineerOnetask Jun 2018 - Oct 2018Glebe, Sydney, Balmain, AuWorked with founders on a project based contract to engineer an end-to-end realtime all-weather vision system that performed high volume continuous object analysis on edge-based embedded camera systems.Architected and built a serverless, event driven cloud backend (GCloud) and React / Redux SPA for validation, monitoring and analysis. Designed and built an edge deployed highly parallel real-time image analysis pipeline using Yolo/TinyYolo, OpenCV and sklearn. Built a cloud based ML pipeline for recurrent training of edge optimised vision models with OTA deployment. -
Technology And Software Solutions LeadGrosvenor Management Consulting Jan 2018 - Jun 2018Canberra, Act, AuProductise, architect and develop innovative software to solve business problems using the latest in AI, web and cloud technologies. Designed and built MVP of SPAT, a massively scalable serverless ML powered big data spend analysis platform that could draw actionable insights in seconds. Drove the organisational adoption of the latest technology, visualisation, BI and data-science practices for both internal usage and to improve the value we offer to clients. Automate and digitise internal processes and tools. -
Senior ConsultantGrosvenor Management Consulting Jul 2017 - Jan 2018Canberra, Act, AuUndertook data analysis and modelling of billion dollar spend portfolios to draw actionable insights. Building explorative dashboards and reports using Sway, PowerBI and Tableau.Performed cost modelling and financial analysis for high risk construction and cloud IT government procurements. Conducted organisational reviews of government branches and not-for-profits.
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ConsultantGrosvenor Management Consulting Aug 2016 - Jun 2017Canberra, Act, Au
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Co-Founder And Software EngineerAgile Sensing Jan 2015 - Sep 2016Focused on developing extremely low cost and compliant IoT devices for the Australian agriculture and farming industries. Lead the hardware and software engineering and managed outsourced team to build several product systems.Modular BlueTooth LE / Mesh Network Telemetry System for monitoring a wide range of in-house built RTOS sensors including electric fences, tanks, feed stations, humidity and rainfall peripherals. Hay Bale analytics IoT system to monitor and actively prevent spontaneous combustion and accelerated decomposition of hay protein content.
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Product Engineer (Technical Co-Founder)Parking Strategy Jun 2013 - Sep 2016Lead the engineering of multiple complex edge surveillance / vision system products and bespoke services for local governments. My role included the design of hardware, firmware and software systems. Leading a small team of local engineers and a larger outsourced team. Products required short development lifecycles and would often completely change overnight, it was here that I honed my skills as a project manager in a truly agile environment.Technical expert for court cases and legal proceedings, working with Chief Magistrates and Government to develop data protection and data integrity procedures.
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Mathematics And Science TutorInfinity College Jun 2013 - Mar 2015
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Physics And Astronomy Workshop TutorUniversity Of Sydney Mar 2013 - Dec 2014The University Of Sydney, New South Wales, Au
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Jacob Richter Education Details
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University Of SydneyApplied Mathematics And Physics -
Gosford Selective High SchoolEngineering Studies
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