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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Principal Developer, Confluence Cloud - Part 2In many cases I researched difficult projects and problem areas of the code that had not yet been solved. When no prior engineers or functional specifications were available, I reverse engineered the functionality by tracing through the source code and making recommendations or bug fixes as appropriate.I wrote a prototype of a popup editor to solve the problem of managing nested content within Confluence pages. Handling nested, hierarchical content is a particularly thorny problem to solve in rich text editors, and thus demonstrating potential solutions to this problem was of benefit to the business and our customers.I was instrumental in introducing Atlassian to the SourceGraph code search engine and was actively involved in managing the trial process and writing the purchasing proposal. This has the potential to greatly enhance developer productivity within Atlassian.Technologies used: React, Redux, GraphQL, legacy JavaScript code using the internal AUI and AJS frameworks and jQuery, and TypeScript, Jest and other testing frameworks

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Principal Developer, Confluence Cloud - Part 1When I joined the Content Experience team, the company was in the midst of a multi-year project to migrate Confluence from the old rich text editor based on TinyMCE to a new editing experience based on the ProseMirror open source project, with the goal of providing customers with a faster and more modern editing experience. I participated extensively in numerous aspects of this migration, focusing on frontend engineering tasks while working on a cross functional team composed of frontend engineers, backend engineers, architects, product managers, designers, and technical writers.My work focused heavily on the macro infrastructure, a critical component which supports the Atlassian Marketplace third-party vendors and collectively generates over $300MM in total revenues for Atlassian and its vendors. Some specific macro types that I worked on include plain text macros (e.g., LaTeX and others), the Microsoft Office Connector macro, Jira Integration Macro, and Team Calendars.

Architected a major redesign of the Web UI for Visual Uptime, a high-availability network monitoring system for major service providers such as AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. I led an international team to update legacy code to a modular architecture of the UI and charting components in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. The redesign is testable with modern design patterns to allow team members to quickly react to new requirements, resulting in recurring, high gross margin revenue of over $75 million. Planned and implemented the data migration strategy for TruView from SQL Server to Mongo DB, ElasticSearch, and Cassandra to allow the customers to use an open platform with high-throughput data capture needed to support 10Gb network monitoring. In addition, I developed the automated provisioning system for ElasticSearch clusters to allow customers to easily expand their TruView deployment to support ultra-high-performance network monitoring.Technologies Used: C#, Java, Ruby, PowerShell, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, MongoDb, SQL Server, Angular

Scrum master and manager of TruView, the market leader in application-aware network performance monitoring system. I managed a team of engineers both in the US and internationally and collaborated with the product owner in scrum of scrums to ensure the teams were solving the right problems. I facilitated the team to maximize customer impact to achieve our quality, performance and scalability targets while also adhering to the products budget constraints. I translated and prioritized the customer requirements into implementable user stories. Under my direction my team was able to meet its commitments to consistently deliver customer value each sprint, using continuous integration and automated testing.

Designed and developed a mapper component for an enterprise application integration (EAI) product, a critical component used to visually correlate input fields to output fields. The component allowed customers to easily create ETL pipelines without resorting to complex scripting. Development utilized JavaScript, SVG, jQuery, jQuery UI, and Backbone with a focus on UX/UI and collaborated with back-end engineers to refine the Web API. Technologies Used: JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI, Backbone

Designed and implemented MergeMagician, a system for managing the workflow of automated, server-side merges in a heavily-branched version control system. It is somewhat analogous to GitHub pull requests, but more advanced as it would cascade merges up and down the branch hierarchy using a publish/subscribe configuration model to perform merges automatically. It utilized a pluggable component architecture for supporting multiple version control systems. Technologies Used: Team Foundation Server, Subversion, SQL Server, MySQL, C#, .NET, Silverlight

Conceived and implemented LotsOfJots, a cloud-based document management system that combines elements of note-taking systems, semantic wikis, and document portals. The goal was to create a easy to use documentation system with reusable content, topic-based authoring, improved readability, fluid navigation across multi-sectioned documents, and fast searching. The system is scalable, using MongoDb for document storage, ElasticSearch for indexed searching, and is hosted on Microsoft Azure. Technologies Used: Azure, Git, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, .NET Core, MongoDb, ElasticSearch, Microsoft Search, MailGun

Developed a graphical reporting package for JDSU’s automated testing system that allowed managers to make informed decisions regarding product readiness. The Web UI used Raphael to render various chart types such as bar and spider charts, while the server side was C# with Entity Framework accessing a MS SQL Server. Prior to this project, the automated testing system had no facilities for generating automated reports to management. Weekly reports were hand-assembled in an Excel spreadsheet by tediously combing through large volumes of data generated by the testing system. This project helped increase the team's velocity by giving managers timely access to important project quality data.Technologies Used: C#, ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript, Raphael, Entity Framework, SQL Server

Created BuildBeat, a pioneering continuous integration system (pre-dated Jenkins and Bamboo) that used a multi-agent architecture to distribute build jobs onto different servers to execute tasks in parallel for best performance. The architecture utilized proper design patterns and best practices, including an asynchronous messaging library for communication among build agents, a service bus that coordinated worker classes, and an object/relational mapping system for database access. The front-end was written in HTML/CSS/JavaScript with ASP.NET Web Forms, the back-end in C#, with SQL Server and MySQL databases for persistence. Technologies Used: C#, .NET, ASP.NET Web Forms, SQL Server, MySQL, JavaScript

Designed and architected TeamTrack, one of the first web-based issue tracking systems on the market. The system built upon my prior defect tracking experience, adding support for multiple projects, cross-project reporting, state-based workflow, application-specific user privileges, an integrated scripting language, and graphical trend reports for management insights. The system was written in C++, ran on Microsoft IIS using the ISAPI interface, and supported multiple database systems such as Oracle, SQL Server, and Microsoft Access. As the founder, I designed the initial architecture and oversaw the hiring of sales, marketing, and engineering managers as the company grew to a team of 125 people, culminating in the sale of the company to Serena Software.Technologies Used: C++, MFC, SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC, HTML, JavaScript

Software Edge, makers of Defect Control System, later known as PVCS Tracker, was an early pioneer in the field of defect tracking, creating the first ever defect tracking system to run on the Microsoft Windows. As a co-founder of the company, I established the technical direction of the product and test strategies, as well as coordinated technical writers and support engineers. In addition, I was actively involved in implementation, creating a customizable content rendering system, and leading the project team to port the system to run on SQL Server and Oracle. The company experienced rapid adoption and received numerous industry awards. It was aquired by INTERSOLV where the product became part of the PVCS suite. Technolgies Used: C, Windows SDK, Raima Data Manager, SQL Server, ODBC

Houston, Texas, Us

As a software engineering intern, I created a scripting language for generating network protocol traffic to test HP’s network analyzers. I modelled the language’s parser after Lex & YACC. After receiving my master’s degree, I joined the Network Advisor protocol analysis system, where I contributed extensively to the product’s user interface and event logging system using an object-oriented approachTechnologies Used: Pascal, C, Smalltalk, TCP/IP

Mscs, Computer Science

Bsee, Electrical / Computer Engineering