Work expectations
Status
Actively looking
Not looking
Open to new opportunities
Previously hired through SkillsRobin
Location
Brisbane
-
Open to relocating
Commitment
Full-time; Casual / Freelance / Part-time; Join as a startup co-founder
Availability from time of offer
Immediately
Experience
7+ years
experience
Top 3 programming languages/frameworks
typescript, react, c#
Also knows
python, sql, scala
Preferred work environment
Fully remote; Hybrid
Strengths
Interested in working involving
I'm looking for a role at an early stage startup where I can do both design and implementation for greenfield apps.
I have the most experience with data visualization, but also enjoy doing general application development.
I haven't found an industry I'm not interested in. The main importance for me is that I believe in the business idea/strategy at the beginning.
Not interested in work involving
The business I see advertising that i'm not open to are: - AI slop generators - Gambling sites - Crypto startups
Other information
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Able to work in Australia without visa sponsorship
Requires visa sponsorship to work in Australia
Pay expectations
Full-time
$
160000
per year
Casual / Contract
$
90
per hour
Pay is negotiable in exchange for equity
Pay is negotiable in exchange for equity
Pay is not negotiable in exchange for equity
Open to volunteering or working for equity only
Not interested in volunteering or working for equity only if joining as a co-founder
Work experience
Proudest professional achievement
I was the only dev at the startup, and to start with I made interactive and responsive visualisations for the existing method of collecting forecasts (online forms and spreadsheets). This gave me some time to learn the best way to represent conditional forecasting and deliver some "wow" immediately. The founder had a vision for the product and I helped fill in all the details. In the early mockups I used design software to get feedback and iterate quickly, then build out the app. In addition to designing and building, I took responsibility for operations, training, support and help which is typical at a startup - I like this because it gives more freedom, reward and variety. I was able to do some deep and difficult work. For example, other tools at most will let you forecast with skewed logistic distributions. The app allowed users to edit a simple skewed logistic and switch to a custom curve (smoothed with monotonic cubic splines) which is not available in other forecasting tools.
A good moment was when a leading AI research organisation engaged us to make forecasts for them - they even used the visualisation from the app in their publications (a paper on evaluating frontier models for dangerous capabilities). This was the most rewarding role I have had, and my best work so far.
Software Engineer
Financial services technology company • Sep 2022 - Present
- Contract software engineering role supporting financial technology infrastructure and services
Data Engineer
Social media analytics startup • Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
- Co-created transparency platform for YouTube that raised $5.9M USD to help organizations understand risks and opportunities in social media narratives
- Expanded backend to collect video metadata for 800K+ YouTube channels daily and millions of podcasts, scaling warehouse to 15TB
- Designed and created beehive visualization React control featured heavily in reports and product
- Built stack using GitHub Actions, C#, Python in Azure Container Instances, Snowflake, Dataform, and React/TypeScript/D3.js
Researcher & Full Stack Developer
Independent research • Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
- Built data collection system for political YouTube channels and co-authored peer-reviewed paper on YouTube recommendation algorithm influence
- Created approach for classifying channels and evaluating recommendation influence, reported by mainstream press
- Developed transparency platform using machine learning to classify 8K+ channels, which became foundation for subsequent startup
Data Engineer
DevOps platform company • Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
- Built internal reporting and analytics system integrating data from product, backend systems, and SaaS products
- Fixed and improved existing ASP.NET reports and created data pipeline using C# and SQL Server
- Created analysis for executive team, sales and support engineers using Tableau, training managers for self-service analytics
Founder
Analytics SaaS startup • Sep 2016 - Dec 2018
- Founded analytics platform for enterprise service management software using modern data stack
- Built solution with data lake using Parquet files in AWS S3, Azure Functions orchestrating Scala/Spark notebooks and Snowflake SQL
- Created PowerBI and Tableau analysis tools for enterprise clients
Product Designer, Architect
Business intelligence software company • Jan 2013 - Aug 2016
- Drove product design and development of unified web-based BI platform for Microsoft ERP analytics
- Led design workshops with executives and product managers, conducting rigorous product design process
- Successfully launched product that became main focus of company's business through prototype testing and cross-functional collaboration
Lead Developer
Business intelligence software company • 2006 - 2013
- Led team of 6 developers building C# application to build and customize data warehouses and cubes for Microsoft ERP customers
- Advanced from junior developer to lead developer on ASP.NET web-based BI product
- Delivered commercial success on time with warehouse and cube customization platform
Software Engineer
Software development company • Mar 2005 - Aug 2006
- Software engineering role building enterprise software solutions
Education
B. Software Engineering at the University of Queensland
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