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

2023 – 2024 · 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
2017-2020 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

2012 – 2016 · Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours)