Career History
2024 – present
AEM
Software Engineer — Wildfire DaaS
2023 – 2024
FireSight
Sole Developer — GIS & Bushfire Analysis Tools
2020 – 2023
RedEye
Technical Lead — Convexion Bushfire Platform
2017 – 2020
RedEye
Backend Developer & Technical Lead — Workforce Mobility
2015 – 2017
RedEye
Junior Developer — Document Management System
2012 – 2016
Griffith University
Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours)
AEM
- Lead developer of fuel geospatial processing pipeline
- Purpose built pipeline to pull, cache, build, publish and distribute fire simulation inputs
- Designed & developed a system that combined incremental builds, dependency digraphs, arbitrary tile systems and distributed computing to produce fuel maps without wasted compute, in a customisable way and from unrelated data sources using on-demand AWS machines.
- Produced automated weekly fuel maps for significant coverage of Australia, Canada & USA
FireSight
- 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
- 2020-2023 Technical Lead (Spring, Java / Python) for the RedEye Bushfire Platform
- 2017-2020 Backend Developer and Technical Lead (Spring, Java) for RedEye Workforce Mobility
- 2015-17 Junior Developer (Symfony, PHP) for RedEye Document Management System
- Developed extensive REST API for web and mobile apps
- Led a team of 2-4 developers as technical lead
- Developed, maintained and optimised features; conducted code reviews, configured CI/CD pipelines and managed releases
- Wrote unit, integration and manual tests
- Dockerised services and managed staging and production deployments in AWS
- Scoped and solutionised new product features with the product team
- Mentored junior developers and provided technical and architectural guidance
Griffith University
- Overall GPA: 6.0 / 7.0 (Distinction)
- 2014: Award for Academic Excellence (Top 5%)
- 2012: Award for Academic Excellence (Top 5%)