Nicholas Lambourne Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, QLD, AU

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

As part of the ML Platform team I work to maintain the infrastructure that powers Canva’s wide array of machine learning applications and facilitate the creation of new applications by our embedded machine learning engineers.I also coordinate the development of onboarding material for all Machine Learning Engineers at the company.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Remote

I served as technical adviser and systems architect for the School of Languages & Cultures at UQ in their effort to bring the ELPIS automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to the cloud as a SaaS platform.

Brisbane, Australia

I was engaged as a a Research Assistant attached to the Complex and Intelligent Systems Group at UQ, working on the Transcription Acceleration and Indigenous Language Robot projects. Most of my work was focused on the Elpis Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) pipeline, targeted at accelerating the language documentation process of field linguists.

Brisbane, Australia

• I have tutored various courses on behalf of ITEE, typically running practical and tutorial sessions and marking student assessment but also contributing significantly to the learning materials of several courses:
• COMP3001 (Voyages in Language Technologies): an introduction and broad overview of computational linguistics, from machine translation and automated transcription to pattern recognition for sign language.
• CSSE2310 (Computer Systems Principles & Programming) in which students are taught the fundamentals of Unix operating systems, networks, file systems, concurrency and C programming.
• CSSE2002 (Programming in the Large), which teaches students Object-Oriented Programming Techniques, the Java programming language, software specification and GUI programming.

Brisbane, Australia

I took part in a ten week summer research program with a cross-disciplinary team that developed a proof-of-concept graphical user interface for the Elpis automatic speech recognition pipeline using React and Flask.

Brisbane, Australia

Responsible for several teams of first-year engineering students taking the course ENGG1200 (Engineering Modelling and Problem Solving) in which they utilise industry tools including CREO and Matlab to design, build, and test a model UAV. I also supervise students in practical sessions, mark student assignments and facilitate various forms of assessment.

Brisbane, Australia

During the five week winter research program I worked under the supervision of Dr Gautier Durantin to produce Hermes, a cross-platform software tool for transforming linguistic analysis files into materials for use with robots designed to assist in the teaching of language.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

I worked with the Platform SRE team at Atlassian on various projects surrounding the reporting of service level objective (SLO) performance to internal teams.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As part of the infrastructure team, I built a shell script transpiler framework and reference generator targeting Python 3. I also created an interactive playground, using Python, Flask and React, allowing for real-time transpilation in the browser.

San Francisco Bay Area

I joined SepsisScout (then Patchd) for a short internship as part of the UQ IdeaHub San Francisco Startup Adventure. As part of this role I worked with the Patchd team to optimise the training of their machine learning (Recurrent Neural Network) models using GPU parallelisation. These models use biometric data to detect sepsis, a life-threatening but.

Cleveland, Queensland, Australia

• ADLED was a thriving adtech company that owned a network of LED billboards around southeast Queensland. It was eventually bought out by the industry's largest player, Ooh! Media. During my time with the company I.
• Developing and maintaining a real-time online resource monitoring portal for the LED network.
• Compiling financial reports and working with industry groups to lobby local governments on legislative issues.
• Heading an extensive technical and financial review of digital advertising content management systems.

Cleveland, Queensland, Australia

• While working at SS Signs, I took part in the following projects:
• Writing technical documentation for LED billboard content management and configuration systems.
• Heading a development effort for a boutique content management system for LED billboards.
• Developing software and hardware with electricians to control the rotation of LED billboards to face oncoming traffic at various times throughout the day.

Bachelor Of Laws

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: University of Queensland Computing Society, UQ Electrically Based Engineering Student Society, Robogals Brisbane.

Exchange Studies, Computer Science

I spent six months at the University of Connecticut as part of the UQ Abroad exchange program. During my time at UConn I studied: •.

Startup Pre-Accelerator Program

UQ Idea Hub is a practical, hands-on program that provides aspiring student entrepreneurs with the skills and knowledge needed to conceive.

Bachelor Of Commerce, Finance

Activities and Societies: University of Queensland Business Association, University of Queensland Financial Management Association I.

Bachelor Of Science, Psychology

Activities and Societies: UQ Psychology Students’ Association I completed a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Psychology with a focus on.

Queensland Certificate Of Education

I completed grades 4-12 at Cannon Hill Anglican College where I undertook senior studies in: • Economics • Modern History • Mathematics B.