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Auckland, New Zealand

At Goodcover, my primary focus was on enhancing the React frontend written in Scala.js to expand beyond California to all states, although I frequently worked across the full stack. I contributed to implementing a new quote funnel and member pages, focusing on creating a delightful user experience that drove high conversion rates. This required rewriting.

Flow2b is a small Distributed Autonomous Organization that develops and runs an ERP SaaS platform. My role was to correct the technical direction and advance the platform to its next stage, with a primary focus on modernization to facilitate rapid changes while enhancing stability, security, and performance. Key achievements include migrating the entire.

Auckland, New Zealand

I returned to assist the Geneious Biologics team on a casual contract. It was gratifying to see that the team had continued to embrace and advocate for the systems and standards I had originally established.

I joined Lightbend to work alongside some of my idols in the Scala community. My focus was on version 2 of Lightbend Console, an observability tool for gaining insights into Akka Cluster, Play, and Lagom applications running on Kubernetes. My primary responsibilities included creating new backend microservices using Akka-gRPC and Akka-HTTP, compiling.

Auckland, New Zealand

I managed and led a team of six to develop Geneious Prime, a molecular biology and sequence analysis desktop application. I worked closely with the project owner to define the roadmap, and then collaborated with the team to plan, scope, and deliver the work. In addition to providing technical leadership, I modernized our development processes, which.

Auckland, New Zealand

I initially joined Geneious (FKA Biomatters) as a key member of the cloud team to create a new bioinformatics platform powering Geneious Biologics. My role was to leverage my Scala expertise and knowledge of Reactive Systems to evolve the platform and upskill the team. During this time, I created several new reactive microservices that handled the.

Auckland, New Zealand

At Orion Health, I worked on both Rhapsody, an integration engine, and Symphonia, a messaging toolkit. Over the years, I designed and implemented several new features, including error queue management, file handle management, archive cleanup diagnostics, and various configuration APIs. I also designed and led a small team to create a message snapshot.

I managed the Computer Science computer labs and helped students with any questions.

I tutored first year Information Systems students.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcom), Information Systems

Ncea Level 3