Helping grow New Zealand’s largest EV charging network.- Building and operating soft real-time back end services, web and mobile applications for operating, managing and generating data insights into Evnex’s fleet of smart chargers.- Leading technical decision making processes, ensuring all voices are heard before gaining consensus and ensuring outcomes are documented.- Designed and implemented API Authentication & Authorization approaches.- Improved defect and deployment rates by bringing a strong focus on technical skills and DevOps to the team.

Worked on a team migrating Seequent's desktop applications from hardware dongle licenses to a cloud-based Identity, Licensing and Entitlements system.- Designed, developed, deployed, and operated libraries, APIs and applications on AWS- Led the development of an internal adminstration tool for customising and managing entitlements. - Mentored other developers in Python and Test-Driven Design.- Led the introduction of an incident review process to the company.

I worked on applications helping connect Australians in need with services to give them a helping hand.- Maintained and extended a number of Python and JavaScript web applications, while increasing test coverage, improving documentation and bringing projects up to date with community norms.- Improved location based results in an Elasticsearch based search engine.- Led a small team in prototyping an Open Data project to inform funding for social services based on demand from search analytics.- Provided support and mentoring to junior developers working for the first time with Django and Docker.- Performed significant refactoring work allowing for faster development of new features.- Managed releases and worked with other internal groups in a DevOps environment to debug issues across multiple applications communicating over HTTP APIs and message queues.

- Developed an open source Django app providing model and form fields for storing time durations and providing objects for easy date & time calculations in Python.- Designed and built the backend for an e-commerce site, integrating with third-party stock management and payment systems.- With one other developer, designed and built a Django-based application for managing sport centres with complex scheduling and billing requirements.- Built JSON API endpoints with Django Rest Framework and related frontend components with HTML, JavaScript and Backbone.js.- Drove development of automated tests for new and existing projects, allowing our small team to build and deploy significantly larger applications.

- Performed exploratory testing and participated in design workshops for a mobile application which provides real-time updates on grain prices to drivers, allowing them to get the best possible prices for their deliveries.- Designed and developed Cucumber-based automated tests with Python and Selenium.- Collaborated with Business Analysts to ensure systems owned by other internal groups provided the required functionality.

- Worked closely with senior engineers to fix bugs and contribute automated tests to a large, legacy embedded-C code-base.- Developed test designs for new features.- Performed exploratory testing and provided feedback to developers on short time scales.

- Collaborated with graphic designers to build websites with Django.- Provided time estimates and prepared quotes for clients.- Delivered completed projects on time and on budget.

- Maintained and extended web applications written in Python and SQL.- Worked with two other developers to implement a secure wifi hotspot.

Designed and developed an application to assist in manual testing activities for a mission-critical P25 public safety radio communications system, using TDD and Python.

- Designed and developed tests to provide stability and performance statistics.- Singlehandedly improved automated test coverage by more than four times.- Assisted in planning test activities for several major software releases.- Designed and developed scripts to assist in manual testing activities by creating background traffic on a radio communications network.- Introduced Python for test automation, and drove adoption across the department, removing the need for costly proprietary software licenses.- Designed and developed automated tests for voice encryption, removing the need for time consuming and error prone manual tests.- Performed exploratory testing.