Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Framework to create empathetic and forgiving software automation.
• Designed to address frustration of automation maintainers, SREs, customer support staff.
• Empathetic by presenting relevant information understandably.
• Shapes automation to be forgiving of erroneous input of both action and data.
• Guides development correctness with compile time guarantees.

Sep 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Auckland, New Zealand

• Engineering role spanning product and infrastructure design, implementation, and management.
• Architecture and implementation of managed infrastructure — AWS CFN, Java, internal tooling
• Troubleshoot and resolve production system issues — AWS, Java, Linux system admin
• Software design and development of clinician and patient facing web application — AWS, Java
• Communicate across teams to resolve issues and deliver value collaboratively.
• Teach design principles to improve understandability and reduce total cost of ownership.

Jul 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Auckland, New Zealand

• Ensure production systems and environments are maintained and are secure.
• Develop, refine and extend build, monitoring, deployment and provisioning scripts, systems
• and tools to ensure seamless build, provisioning, deployment and monitoring of cloud
• services and components.
• Analyse and decompose complicated software systems and design strategies and
• approaches to automatically deploy, maintain and monitor these systems.
• Ensure appropriate backup solutions are in-place.
• Define and implement appropriate failover and disaster recover procedures and processes.
• Provide timely and elegant communication to key stakeholders.
• Define, maintain and adhere to planning, development and testing processes and policies
• that are consistent with MYOB’s agile development model and product development
• lifecycle leading to successful release and iteration planning and execution.
• Plan, manage and adhere to MYOB’s security policies and processes to ensure cloud services
• and components are highly secure and monitored for security breaches.
• Collaborate as a member of a cross-functional, agile product development team within a
• multi-team product stream and within the broader business.

Feb 2018 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Passion project to develop a game using Rust that is simple for youths to configure to spark their interest in digital skills.
• Development of a 2.5D game for major OSes and the web through WASM.
• Designing text-based configuration to be intuitive for unfamiliar users.
• Design and implementation of a test framework for the Amethyst game engine.
• Management of a project to add WASM support to the Amethyst game engine.
• I also actively participate in the local Rust meetup by giving talks on different programming paradigms at beginner and intermediate levels.

Nov 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Infrastructure and process automation, workflow optimization.
• Access management automation — LDAP, AWS IAM, Lambda.
• Network and infrastructure provisioning — Capistrano, AWS CFN, VPC.
• Support contact for European offices.

Apr 2014 – Nov 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Deployment automation and configuration management.
• Adapting web applications to be suited for automation.
• Server provisioning automation — OpenStack, AWS EC2.
• Orchestrating software installation and configuration — Puppet, REST.
• Support and training for internal staff to use automated tooling.

Jan 2012 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Server side web application development.
• Business logic development and testing — Java, JUnit.
• Database schema definition — Oracle, MS SQL.
• Runtime dependency management — Equinox, OSGi.

Nov 2009 – Feb 2010 · 3 mos

• During this internship, I developed a plugin for the Eclipse IDE to calculate class inheritance metrics to aid empirical analysis of code quality.