I have a passion for building software. I can concile abstract thinking with the concrete world. I apply my knowledge to build quality software. I’m not only a geek but also very social. I work well in teams and love to solve problems. My goal is to become an excellent software architect but I still want to keep a hand in the code. As part of my senior role I help junior developers excelling in their work. I’ve always worked in Agile settings and I’m comfortable with all the tools used by the DevOPS. I can easily implement those best practices if it is needed. I’m solution oriented and do not like to tinker too much about things that will not be.

Skills

Frontend

Senior
  • HTML / JSX
  • SCSS / CSS / BEM / Styled Components
  • Javascript / Typescript
  • React / Next
  • Redux / Apollo

Backend

Senior
  • Node
  • Ruby
  • Python
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • Serverless

Devops

Senior
  • AWS
  • G Cloud
  • Heroku
  • Caching

Work Experience (11)

 Melbourne
Tokenized is a Bitcoin wallet for issuing, managing and trading digital tokens
  • React
  • Redux
  • Product
 Melbourne
Blockbid is an Australian crypto currency exchange.
  • React, Apollo, Styled Components
  • Node.js / Rails
  • Docker / Heroku / GCP
  • Used Figma for design and UX work
  • Optimizing markets with tens of millions of rows using SQL
Built a very large and complex React / Redux application. It works on all platforms and has IOS/Android builds due to it being a PWA. (wrapped it in React Native though only implementing a WebView)
  • Worked with Postgres, Redis and Dynamodb for storage.
  • Hosted on a mixture of Heroku Apps and EC2 servers.
  • Caching by Fastly and Cloudflare
  • Hybrid app supported on all platforms
Following Google’s CDN for jQuery, we decided to start a CDN for the less popular Javascript frameworks. The CDN is community moderated and open source on GitHub. We secured a partnership with Cloudflare who now supports the infrastructure.
  • Millions of sites use the CDN in production
  • Larger market share than Yahoo's and Microsoft's content distribution network
  • We serve hundreds of billions request a month
  • Contains over 3000 popular Javascript libraries
  • Millions of developers visit the site per year
Hired to take EFF's campaigning to the next level by building an action centre in Ruby on Rails. The action centre is built around some large open source tools that lower the barrier to entry when contacting congress.
  • Developed new tools for contacting congress
  • Brainstormed campaign ideas to raise maximum awareness about issues
  • Lots of social networking integration
Started off as a front end developer but took on the role of CTO in early 2013. The application frontend is built with Javascript and organized as a single page application that talks to a collection of Rails web servers which are connected to MongoDB.
  • Managed a small team of developers and designers
  • Built the entire frontend application with Backbone.js
  • Transferred all of the infrastructure from Heroku to AWS
JSON Resume is a community driven open source initiative to create a JSON based standard for resumes. There is no reason why there can't be a common standard for writing a resume that can be extended with an ecosystem of open source tools.
  • Over 3000 stars on Github
  • Community developed themes
Worked on many politically charged campaigns against mass surveillance. Not only technically challenging work but also a lot of networking and getting my hands dirty with politics. Our biggest project was "TheDayWeFightBack"..
  • Generated 37,000,000 banner views
  • 100, 000 phone calls to congress
  • 500, 000 emails
  • 250, 000 signatures
An international directory of civilian drone / UAV operators for hire. Services include aerial photography, aerial video, mapping, surveying, precision agriculture, real estate photography, remote inspections and infrared imaging. Our plan is to be the place to go when looking for UAV/Drone services. The website is built in Backbone.js and API is built with Node.js and Postgres.
  • The site and blog combined have managed to receive over 200,000 visitors in 2014.
I write tutorials and blog post regarding the popular Javascript framework Backbone.js. The tutorials cover a range of topics regarding front end development aimed at beginners, experts and anyone in between.
  • Over two million unique visitors a year
  • 25,000+ ebook downloads
  • 300,000+ Youtube views
Ephox is a worldwide company who is heavily involved with the development of TinyMce and enterprise editors. My primary role included building front-end widgets and applications. Worked on a major product using Backbone.js as a base. Heavily involved in UI/UX design and wire-framing. Also spend a lot of time designing API specifications and documentation.

Education (3)

2000 - 2000
Masters
 Master in computer science
Université Catholique de Louvain
2000 - 2000
Preparatory year for Masters
 Master in computer science
Université Catholique de Louvain
2000 - 2000
Bachelors
 Bachelor degree in computer science
Bachelor degree in computer science

Awards

Defender of the Internet
Fight For The Future

Interests

Gardening

Music

Reading

Open Source