While contracting, I'm spending some time & money to do some R&D into potential new startup ideas.

Life's too short for mediocre food. Foodjitsu aims to reinvigorate the relationship between people and food by drastically improving the experience of shopping, learning, sharing and cooking through technology.

I was assigned to the Job Posting team to instill better engineering, code quality and efficiency practices in our daily lives. The challenge is to teach and cement this in our culture while still keeping high quality output of our product. Our team is responsible for a large majority of the revenue for SEEK and as such, our application needed to have 100% uptime while still keeping it possible to do experiments for new features.Our team was given a mandate to completely redo the job posting application as the previous version was getting old, clunky and hard to maintain. We wrote the new one using React with a slew of unit and integration test to make sure that we weren't breaking anything, then starting moving some traffic over from the old application to the new one. We did experiments to see which version was better for our users and we were able to increase job ad completion rates by 27%! This had a direct benefit to Seek’s bottom line as well as improving user happiness through a cleaner user experience.Sadly, with COVID affecting the country, SEEK leadership made the decision to cancel the contracts of all contractors for the time being.

I was given a clear goal to improve developer efficiency and code quality across the board for 45 developers and 12 testers. After familiarizing myself with the tech stack, the processes and individuals, I identified some key issues and started tackling them, including:- Build & Test times were slow, made them 3x faster through parallelization of tasks- Dockerized several projects to make it extremely easy to get started by simply doing `docker-compose up`.- Refactored an API mocking project that was used for all consumers and dockerized it for easier usage.- Documented our current release strategy to remove any confusion across teams, as well as helped specify our 'release strategy vision' to help align everyone on how we can make it easier to consistently deploy new features without affecting each other or our users.- Screened, organized and interviewed dozens of potential new candidates to alleviate the workload of my direct report.- Re-wrote the coding test that all EnergyAustralia developers need to accomplish with easier to understand language, better styling, more inclusive theme, and better API error codes: http://eacodingtest.digital.energyaustralia.com.au/- Helped set SonarQube rules to help developers find issues as part of their code review.- Fix an enormous amount of integration tests that's been consistently flaky, slow and broken for months, over 250 files and 900 tests in total.- Tried to improve developer culture through regular catchups, being available to chat to for problem-solving, constantly reviewing code, attending dev guilds, asking questions and mentoring where possible.- Started migrating our git repository from self-hosted Gitlab to cloud Github Enterprise with the aim to reduce our distractions and enable our developers to do more through the Github platform.- Became the "Slack Champion" to try to set standards and improve our communication and efficiency through the tool.

I was hired to inject some much needed front-end expertise and a different way of thinking to a very old and massive monolith application. I've spearheaded the use of Angular.js so that we can tackle the monolith issue page by page, while creating shareable components and services through a component library that can be reused across projects, helping us move and build our software faster. Pushed for the use of Typescript in both front-end and back-end with AWS Lambda functions to create scalable, reusable and small backend APIs while reducing errors and making it simpler to build good software. Implemented the first version of a dynamic and configurable form builder in Angular. Single-handedly created the front-end build pipeline which could deploy static assets (HTML, CSS & Javascript) worldwide using a CDN with smart cache invalidation through AWS Lambdas. Implemented the first usage of the Pact Contract Testing Framework for a project. Saved hundreds of developer hours (continual) by simplifying the .NET build/refresh cycle so that developers can see their changes faster instead of waiting 10 minutes for the build. Lead my team's UX research for our search capability then implemented a functioning prototype to assess user needs while recording all sessions and creating a presentation of the findings which lead to our first Search MVP using a self-managed Elasticsearch cluster on AWS which was maintained using Terraform.Became member of the PageUp Social Committee, where we plan company wide events, like the Christmas Party (4 planned), Wine & Cheese and Trivial Night, while keeping everything under budget and try to maximize attendance through internal marketing.Created the PageUp Whiskey Club, where I buy a bottle of whiskey every week and other employees can pay a small fee to have a dram of it during Friday Drinks. Was the Chief Fire Warden for 91 Williams St (10 floors) and the only certified CPR & First Aid responder on my floor.

My duty involved consulting the creative team on what is technically possible then implementing the idea within budget and on deadline, while juggling several projects at the same time. During my time there, I introduced responsive design by using Bootstrap and using a build server to help with larger development (Node, Grunt). The new Penfolds Global website design was mostly implemented by myself.

Helped develop flexible desking software that is currently being used by some of Australia's largest companies to save real estate, manage employees and collect data which ultimately saves money.

Built and deployed an online print approval annotation product called GMG CoZone that's currently being used by 50 worldwide companies including IKEA, JWT and Saatchi & Saatchi. The product helped upgrade the archaic process of annotating, reviewing and modifying an approval before being sent to the printers.

We identified a problem in New York around venue rentals; current venues (gyms, studios, pools, etc) is only being utilized about 40% of the time and yet there is an extremely large demand from people for more activities. Our answer was Tivity; AirBnB meets Kickstarter for sport activities. I was responsible for all technical, design and user experience aspects of the site and the continual management of the product.We decided to stop working on Tivity because of lack of investment and interest from venues to use our software.

Startup company trying to change how creatives work on a day to day basis by making them more efficient with business workflow automation, project time tracking and integration with Creative Suite tools.

Contracted by Accenture to help improve performance of TAB's online betting platform from a 20 second load time down to 3 seconds within 3 months. I accomplished this by re-architecting the whole product and using my in-depth knowledge of Flash and Flex to reduce the overall filesize and processing the application needs to do. Along the way, I also created a new build/deployment process that streamlined the way the developers worked together.

In the fast moving financial industry, time is money. My job was to increase efficiency by fixing, integrating and improving web applications into one large Single Dealer Platform that can handle vast amounts of data and drastically cut the execution time for its users.

I started freelancing to get real world experience and touch new technologies. I soon discovered that most people needed websites for different reasons, which I would then implement using different techniques. This taught me how to handle customers and business expectations.

Continue development on the home automation product (see below) and integrate with the rest of Gridpoint's services. For everything to function, the whole user interface had to be rebuilt from scratch using Flex. 2 years worth of work into the old product needed to be functional in a matter of 6 months, which we accomplished.

Created an online home automation product that can control your home from anywhere, record important statistics about your home and ultimately help reduce the cost of electricity to the user and the demand for it at the energy utility. Our division then got bought by Gridpoint (see above).

Worked with a team of 12 developers to create a US/Canadian Air Force spy plane simulator for training purposes. I built the Instructor Operating System used to create, record and playback scenarios that the instructor would use to teach the recruits.