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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• Built an “AirBnB of campervans” with .NET Core and MongoDB on AWS for THL, including tapping into MongoDB streams to build automatic document history system

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• Replaced legacy C++/MFC UI components with C#/WPF• Consulted directly with customers to improve fruit grading, including spending months overseas working on customer sites in rural USA

• 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