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I lead the development of a scalable vehicle ECU integration testing platform which currently has 2 US patents pending. In this role i conduct the following duties:Develop system architecture and assess trade offs in design documentationConduct code reviews and uphold code quality standardsAnalyse business needs and convert them into actionable technical tasksHire, mentor and coach technical personnelParticipate in organisation wide cross team dependency mapping/planning

In this role I led the overhaul of legacy system for vehicle data collection running in production to improve reliability and observability. I conducted the following tasks:Designed and built the system architecture of a geofencing service for compliance with data collection/privacy laws in the USConducted code reviews and lead postmortemsActed as mentor for other developersDeveloped cloud infrastructure using IaCImplemented CICD pipelines

I moved from Arup Australia to Arup in Germany to develop the digital services business for Arup Germany. In this role, I lead the practical implementation of digital transformation across Arup’s business, which is focussed on built environment engineering and consultancy. In this role my responsibilities were: Develop a regional digital transformation strategyBuild and lead a team of software developersTechnical requirement discovery for potential productsSoftware Architectural design and implementation of core componentsConducting code reviews and upholding quality standardsMentoring developers

As a senior software engineer at Arup I developed larger systems that were consumed by teams of engineers across the globe. The most valuable contribution I made was to design and build a simulation platform that containerised Finite Element Analysis, Raytracing, Thermodynamic & Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation engines to run on a cloud based scalable cluster. In this role my responsibilities were:Design and develop software solutionsRequirements gathering and interfacing with clientsConducting code reviews, leading postmortems and upholding quality standardsMentoring junior developers

While studying at university I worked for an international engineering consultancy part time as a Software Engineer specialising in building simulation software. In this role my responsibilities were:Development of web applications and plugins for Computer Aided design programsTeaching programming and algorithmic 3d modellingData analysis and technical report writing

Academic at the faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning.Responsible for teaching computational methods for energy & daylight analysis in the built environment.

Provide full stack web development servicesInterface with clients to develop ideas into working applications

Assisted in the development of coursework materialTeaching, researching and auditing of courseworkResponsible for marking assessments