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Experience

• Built MYOB.com, a public React/NextJS website (2m+ views /month), using Contentful Headless CMS and a Storybook component library.
• Priorities included: intuitive component prop-APIs, a move towards composability, localisation, Core Web Vitals and improving performance with partial prerendering.
• Introduced trunk-based git workflow with feature flagging and commit conventions to achieve smaller changesets, more focussed code reviews and quicker release cycles.
• Developed a Support Article Search feature with Algolia. Built to be re-used and re-styled across the app, with strong SEO features, which reduced inbound calls to support phone lines.

• Stax is a B2B SaaS cloud management platform, for deploying and monitoring AWS infrastructure. In October 2023, Stax & Versent sold to Telstra for $267.5m.
• Ownership of a production frontend app (70k+ LoC) and a component library (Storybook).
• Architected and built a backend-for-frontend project, to simplify interface with microservices through a GraphQL API, leveraging scalable event-driven, serverless architecture (AWS Lambda, AppSync, SQS).
• Established best practices for a fast-growing organisation: Jest and testing-library for unit testing, E2E tests with Playwright, linting with ESLint and a living DEVELOPMENT.md.
• Mentoring junior engineers across timezones, helping them grow their skills and confidence through pair programming, writing ADRs and leading workshops.
• Also: increased code review frequency with Angular Commit Style and Conventional Comments; and automated releases through Semantic Release.

• Built a modern weather web app for Australia’s most visited meteorology website.
• Improved reliability with static typing & tree-structured state management library (mobx-state-tree).
• Maintained 100% test coverage using react-testing-library and Jest.

• Introduced Redux state management to our React frontend. Expo React Native app for iOS/Android.
• Migration away from legacy Knockout/JQuery app. Integration to Adobe AEM content management.

• Web application development in Agile SCRUM setting, for clients such as Telstra, ANZ Bank and Herbert Smith Freehills. Building websites with ES5/6, Sass CSS, Webpack and CMS integrations
• Built a strong brand for the consultancy, through presentations of our work at industry events like MelbJS, LASTConf and MelbCSS

Education

• Applied course (industry placement), minor in Marketing, GPA 3.2

Skills & Interests

• Frontend: React, Typescript, Javascript, NextJS, Jest, HTML, CSS, PostCSS, Storybook, Playwright.
• Backend: Node, Express, Kafka, Prisma ORM, Vitest, GraphQL, REST, relational & NoSQL databases and Ruby on Rails.
• Infra: SST, Nx, AWS Lambda, ECS, AppSync, DynamoDB, CDK, Buildkite and Docker.
• Skills: solution architecture, event-driven architecture, monorepos, mentoring, Agile