Career Timeline

FireSight (2023, 6 month contract)

  • Sole developer of the project
  • Development of GUI tools to orchestrate the execution of Phoenix RapidFire, and combine results using Python
  • Developed a QGIS plugin with algorithms to:
    • Analyse and export BOM weather for fire simulations
    • Analyse historical fire danger index ratings for extreme fire danger days
    • Analyse fire simulations and extract subdatasets: impact frequency, house loss probability, areas of interest, heatmaps and dangerous ignition zones
    • Determine frequency of historical days suitable for safe burns
  • Developed a Google Earth Engine App to map live fuel moisture content using MODIS satellite imagery

RedEye Apps (2015-2023, Fulltime):

  • 2020-2023 Technical Lead (Spring, Java / Python) for the RedEye Bushfire Platform
  • 2017-2019 Backend Developer and Technical Lead (Spring, Java) for RedEye Workforce Mobility
  • 2015-2016 Junior Developer (Symfony, PHP) for RedEye RedEye Document Management System
  • Developed extensive REST API for web and mobile apps
  • Responsibilities included
    • Technical lead for a team of 2-4 developers
    • Feature development, maintenance, optimisation, code reviews, CI/CD configuration, release management
    • Unit testing, integration testing, manual testing
    • Dockerisation, staging and production environment deployment in AWS
    • Product scoping and solutionising
    • Mentoring junior developers and providing technical and architectural guidance

Academic

Griffith University, Honours

  • 2012-2016: Overall 6.0 / 7.0 GPA (Distinction)
  • 2014: Award for Academic Excellence (Top 5%)
  • 2012: Award for Academic Excellence (Top 5%)