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• Led major backend feature of Tumblr authentication system to supportsocial login with Apple/Google
• Built RESTful APIs in PHP to power over 518 million Tumblr blogs

Auckland, New Zealand

• Designed complete rebuild of core product, moving from on premise legacyVB application to.NET Core in the Azure cloud, supporting hundreds of thousands of users

Auckland, New Zealand

• Built and performed security architecture review on QR payments backendfor Bangkok Bank, handling 17 million customers
• Identified and resolved major memory leaks in ANZ Bank API gateway in production using WinDbg memory dumps to manually trace garbage collection
• Optimised MS SQL queries for address resolution in Australia's New Payments Platform, delivered instant payments to over 20 million people
• Built React/Redux frontend for complex data loading system at NZ Funds while consulting with tax lawyers to ensure regulatory requirements were met
• Built data processing system for spectrometer data at Compac Sort using C#.NET Core and React/Redux, running in containers on Linux
• Led AlphaCert project stream as Technical Lead, co-led architecture group, rearchitected legacy ETL system to take advantage of the cloud and enable continous deployment

Auckland, New Zealand

• Built RESTful APIs in C#, supporting tens of millions of users, on AWS
• Created and co-led the Secure Coding Guild, performing all security related code reviews
• Analysed production data using Sumologic and Redash to inform strategic decisions

Auckland, New Zealand

• Wrote high performance C++ computer vision code, analyzing and sorting 40images of each fruit in tens of milliseconds
• Integrated with industrial automation hardware using RS232
• Reverse engineered and rewrote portions of low-level ethernet camera drivers to decrease discovery time and improve stability
• Designed and implemented new algorithms for detecting blemishes in images of fruit
• Rewrote defect shape classification algorithm for 40x reduction in time
• Reduced memory usage of colour classification system from 400 MB to < 10MB while maintaining accuracy using innovative data structures

• Set up Auckland Gameloft studio from scratch, lead programmer for a team initially consisting of two other developers but rapidly growing
• Reduced memory usage in game cutscenes from 250MB to 70MB using custom asset streaming I built
• Debugged complex system-level iOS audio issues using GDB
• Bootstrapped Nintendo 3DS development project including setting up prototype hardware development kits and toolchains, as well as training other developers
• Mentored junior developers