Experience

Dec 2020 – Apr 2024 | Biowink GmbH

Senior Backend Engineer -> Engineering Team Lead

Led a cross-functional product team responsible for core user functionality, representing the team across the organisation and guiding the team to achieve significant results.
Managed and mentored engineers to grow their skills, confidence and impact across the organisation.
Provided feedback and guidance on architectural designs developed across the organisation to ensure they aligned with the overall technical strategy.
Worked alongside product owners and designers to brainstorm, prototype and refine upcoming feature work.
Monitored application health and quality by analysing key metrics, defining testing strategies and performing hands-on acceptance testing of team features.
Cultivated and maintained relationships with stakeholders across the organisation to facilitate effective team operation and communication of progress.
Served as a technical domain expert for mobile subscriptions (App Store, Play Store) across the organisation.
Backend development in an event-based, micro-service architecture on K8s. Primarily Kotlin/Spring ecosystem (Boot, WebFlux) with secondary JS and Go.
Actively organised and participated in internal events including knowledge-sharing sessions, hackathons and communities of practice to grow the engineering culture within the company.

Core contributor to the succesful product and development platform rewrite which delivered a 3x improvement in development speed and a modernized application architecture.
Pioneered the introduction of ‘Fixed-Time, Variable Scope’ product development (Shape Up) across product engineering to emphasise customer time with value in order to deliver results.
Restructured the interface between Customer Support and Engineering, reducing internal friction and improving response times to users.

Senior Backend Developer

Backend application development in Java 11+ with Spring - including additional development in Go and JS.
Maintaining and deploying services within AWS in an event-based event-sourced, microservice architecture.
Utilizing Jenkins and GitHub Actions along with AWS CloudFormation to deploy services with IaC
Designed and developed a multi-step stateless signup process utilizing JSON Web Tokens.
Creation of technical documentation including data flow and risk assessments for data authority compliance.
Involved with organizing and running internal events and team building exercises such as game nights and quiz nights.

Software Developer -> Senior Software Developer -> Team Lead

Designed, developed and maintained several high-traffic backend applications in an event-based microservice architecture with distributed message queues, hash tables and log store.
Strong focus on performance, reliability and memory management using single-threaded concurrency with async I/O in the D programming language with the open sourced github.com/sociomantic-tsunami libraries.
Involved in all aspects of software development cycle utilizing tools including version control and code-review (Git/GitHub), monitoring (Grafana), containerization (Docker) and continuous integration (Jenkins).
Led a small team of developers responsible for a subsection of backend architecture and involved with onboarding, mentoring and social activities.

Software Engineer

Working as part of an agile software department of ~60 developers to provide 5 major releases of realistic training simulations for mining machines.
Primary development in C++ and additional development in C# with involvement in automated and manual testing utilizing.

Feb 2009 – Dec 2011 | Murdoch University – Western Australia
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science / Games Technology Double Major)

Studied core software development principles including data structures and abstraction, programming paradigms, algorithms and architecture and developing in multiple languages.
Vice Chancellor’s Commendation (2009 and 2010), School of Information Technology Communication Prize – Semester 2 (2011) and WA Industry Selected Games Design and Programming Nomination (2010)