Founder

CTO
Feb 2023 - Now\

Practice Ignition

Lead Developer
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Remote, Australia

Highlights:

• Service Edits project: Lead back-end design and implementation of a feature that extends core functionality and adds ability to edit client services. The project included backend design, data migration, API design, changes to billing functionality and zero down-time migration.

• Authentication project: Lead a team of 4 to improve the authentication layer and introduce token authentication. The project included technical design, token authentication, conversion of REST endpoints to GraphQL, penetration testing, gradual user rollout.

• Back-end: Challenging and driving changes to code conventions and architecture. Migrated app to ruby 2.7 and ruby 3.0. Migrated app from manual requires to Zeitwerk.

• Hosting Ruby meetings: Driving improvements in the engineering culture by hosting weekly ruby meetings.

• Documentation guild: Started initiative to strengthen documentation culture to support team's growth. I reviewed and cleaned up existing documentation, introduced new conventions, set up an onboarding template and restructured engineering handbook.

• Social meetings: Hosted social meetings to improve remote and social culture. Brought back Engineering Happy Hour. Trialled new TIPS meeting format (technology, ideas, person, social). Organised monthly Melbourne catchup.

Used: Rails 6, heroku, aws, confluence, jira, graphql

Airtasker

Staff Software Engineer
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Remote, Australia

During my time I shipped Tasker Listing feature on landing pages with A/B test. I decided to leave after 3 months as the role wasn't a good fit for me.

Used: React, typescript, aws, rails, jira

Split Payments

Lead Developer
Jun 2018 - May 2021
Remote, Australia

I joined Split at the product adoption phase as a first full time employee. During my employment the company grew by 9 times in 3 years (from 5 to 45 people). While my title always stayed the same as Lead Developer, I carried out many roles. There are three distinct phases:

• 1st year - establishing architecture, sharing product manager role, delivering features
• 2nd year - scaling team from 3 to 10 developers, establishing core processes and culture
• 3rd year - engineering manager of 15 developers

A lot has happened in three years, below is a quick reminder to myself of my contributions:

• Meetings: speaker equality, rough consensus, retro, this + last format, punctuality, Discord, 1-on-1s, shaping, grooming, watercooler, donut time.

• Development: build, maintain and produce core functionalities and architecture.

• Delivery: ShapeUp, kanban, open source contributions, 20% time, conventions guide, product & tech demos, product & team roadmaps, OKRs.

• Mentoring: feedback form, retros, shuhari onboarding, comprehensive PR review, 1-on-1s, pairing culture, what + why.

• Team: roles over titles, direct responsible individual principle, team values, offline discussions, watercooler, brags, donut time, burger time, closing the meeting (qotw), skill matrix, quick budget, autonomy and flexibility, bookshelf, hiring, onboarding.

• New tools: Asana, Discourse, Discord.

Used: Event sourcing, rails 5-6, stimulus.js, webpack, AWS, blue-green deployments, 100% test coverage

Car Next Door

Senior Developer
Mar 2017 – Jun 2018
Remote, Australia

During my time at Car Next Door I took part in many initiatives: introduced new architecture, wrote a workflow system, reduced test time from 14 to 4 minutes, wrote API, added analytics platform, optimised company processes.

Read my memorable moments at Car Next Door

Ride Next Door

CTO, Lead Developer
Nov 2016 – Mar 2017
Remote, Australia

Ride Next Door was a subsidiary product of Car Next Door. I worked in a small team to execute on an idea and deliver the product to the market. It was a bus shuttle service which was designed for commuters. If you are from the US, it was a Chariot's clone.

After joining the company 3.5 months later we launched the service. There were four of us: developer (myself), designer, operations lead and director. For a small and new team we delivered the MVP to the market rapidly. I developed hybrid mobile apps, backend api and web driver interface. Technology to list: vue.js, ionic, angular.js, Rails, web sockets, analytics (keen.io).

Opensight

Co-Founder / CTO
Dec 2013 – Oct 2016
Remote, Australia

Opensight is a joint venture where I performed the CTO role. We developed an engagement platform for social networks to reward content creation, measure and encourage word of mouth advertising. I was responsible for the system architecture, team management, business and product development.

Used: Rails 4, ember.js, react.js, redis, elasticsearch, postgres, mongodb, hybrid mobile apps, ionic, aws

Appointuit

Rails Developer (contract)
Dec 2012 – Dec 2013
Remote, Brisbane, Australia

Worked in a small medical startup in Brisbane. I maintained and enhanced their web application.

Used: Rails 3 and others

Client Heartbeat

Rails Developer (contract)
Dec 2012 – May 2013
Remote, Brisbane, Australia

A short contract to maintain an existing Rails application.

Used: Rails 3 and others

Oddsense

Rails Developer (contract)
Jul 2012 – Oct 2012
Remote, Australia

Joined an existing project as a contractor to upgrade and develop new functionality. It was an interesting experience to work on a web analytics tool as a single developer.

Used: Rails 3, elasticsearch, mongodb, sinatra, rspec, devise, cancan, slim, delayed_job, fb_graph, heroku

Everyday Hero

Rails Developer
Jan 2012 – Jul 2012
Brisbane, Australia

Rails front-end and back-end developer for a number of different applications, working in a scrum team.

Used: Rails 1, 2 and 3, sinatra, devise, miniTest, capistrano, delayed_job, MySql, statsd, RabbitMQ

Technology One

Programmer
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Brisbane, Australia

Maintenance, support and enhancement of enterprise software (Supply Chain module).

Used: VisualStudio 2008, VB.Net, MS SQL 2008, TFS

Olitek

Software developer
Nov 2009 – Jan 2011
Northgate, Brisbane, Australia

I was the main developer of a new system for the business, which merges the functionality of previous solutions into one software, covering the entire business process. My duties include close interaction with a client, software and database design, as well as final deployment and integration.

Skills: Project planning, bug tracker, system and database design, while using MS SQL 2008, Visual Studio 2008/2010, C# .Net, LINQ-to-SQL, Entity Framework