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Work Experience

• Product Engineer, Misc Companies

  May, 2020 - Present

  Over the past several years, I've worked at various roles and companies. Mostly early stage startups, doing full stack product development.

  • React / Next

  • Node / Laravel

  • LLM's

  • Diagrams / Canvas

• Senior Javascript Developer, Tokenized

  May, 2020 - May, 20211 year

  Tokenized is a Bitcoin wallet for issuing, managing and trading digital tokens. I built out the front end which was packaged as an electron app. It was a difficult frontend to build because we store the users keys locally and used them to sign transactions and contracts.

  • React

  • Redux

  • SCSS

  • Product

• Senior Javascript Developer, Blockbid

  Mar, 2018 - Jan, 20201 year 10 months

  Blockbid is an Australian crypto currency exchange. I started off on the frontend but eventually became lead tech and worked on every moving piece of the exchange. I really enjoyed working with liquidity providers and connecting their platforms to help us achieve liquid markets.

  • 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.

• Developer, Listium

  Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20182 years

  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

• Developer, Electronic Frontier Foundation

  Apr, 2014 - Jan, 20161 year 9 months

  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

• CTO, Earbits

  Mar, 2013 - Jan, 20151 year 10 months

  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

• Founder, JSON Resume

  Apr, 2014 - Present

  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.

  • This resume is built with JSON Resume

  • Over 3000 stars on Github

  • Community developed themes

  • Tens of thousands of users

• Developer, Taskforce.is

  Jun, 2013 - Jan, 20162 years 7 months

  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

• Co-Founder, Drone Hire

  Jan, 2013 - Present

  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.

• Founder, BackboneTutorials.com

  Jan, 2011 - Jan, 20143 years

  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

• Front-end Developer, Ephox

  Jan, 2011 - Jun, 20121 year 5 months

  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.

Projects Experience

• JSON Resume

  Apr, 2014 - Present

  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.

  • This resume is built with JSON Resume

  • Over 3000 stars on Github

  • Community developed themes

  • Tens of thousands of users

• Cdnjs

  Jan, 2011 - Present

  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, Microsoft's and Google's javascript content distribution networks

  • We serve hundreds of billions request a month

  • Contains over 3000 popular Javascript libraries

  • Millions of developers visit the site per year

• MobTranslate

  Dec, 2024 - Feb, 20252 months

  MobTranslate is an open-source web application aiming to explore and celebrate Indigenous languages by providing a centralized dictionary platform. It supports three Aboriginal languages: Kuku Yalanji, Mi'gmaq, and Anindilyakwa. The project's overriding mission is to make language learning and preservation more accessible, featuring advanced search functionality, a responsive design, and server-side rendering for fast page loads, among other features.

  • Implemented an efficient dictionary data management system providing advanced searching and paginating of words.

  • Optimized the web page load time by implementing server-side rendering using Next.js 14.

  • Developed translation API endpoints that support real-time processing using AI techniques.

  • Successfully structured the project as a monorepo using Turborepo, enabling parallel builds and simplified package sharing.

• JsonBlog CLI

  Jan, 2024 - Feb, 20251 year 1 month

  JsonBlog CLI is a powerful, flexible static blog generator designed with content and adaptability in mind. This command-line interface allows users to write blog posts in Markdown, manage them in JSON, and deploy them flexibly on any platform: from GitHub Pages and Netlify, to your own server or even IPFS. The tool is developed with a keen focus on content freedom, allowing posts to be stored in varying formats – inline JSON, local files, remote URLs or IPFS. It features a zero lock-in architecture, meaning all content is in pure JSON and text, posing no constraints of proprietary formats or databases. Leveraging TypeScript, it maintains a developer-friendly codebase with clean and extensible documentation.

  • Successfully implemented a static blog generator that offers a rich variety of formats for blog posts

  • Incorporated seamless deployment options, enabling users to host their blogs on a platform of their choice

  • Implemented semantic versioning for the JsonBlog schema, facilitating continual evolution and extensibility

  • Developed customization capability, allowing users to create their own blog themes

  • Achieved code quality and maintainability with stringent testing, linting, and code formatting standards

• Smallweb

  Aug, 2024 - Present

  Smallweb is a unique way of looking at website creation, presenting the concept of an 'internet folder' on your computer where each subfolder maps to a subdomain. This idea makes creating a new website as simple as creating a folder and a few files, while still providing the capability to leverage powerful programming languages and runtime like TypeScript and Deno. The primary objective of Smallweb is to simplify the web creation process and also offer efficient hosting options by adopting a serverless architecture. Smallweb, developed using Golang, also utilizes the principle of isolated sandboxes for each website ensuring they can only access their relevant files, thus providing a secure environment for each web application.

  • Provides a simplified approach to web creation with the concept of an 'internet folder' where each subfolder maps a different web application to a subdomain.

  • Introduced a serverless architecture leveraging the Deno runtime environment, offering an efficient hosting solution that only consumes resources when there is traffic.

  • Maintains security through Deno's sandboxing capabilities, isolating each website's file system access.

• BLAH - Barely Logical Agent Host

  Mar, 2025 - Present

  BLAH is an open-source ecosystem designed to manage, distribute, and execute AI agent tools using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It serves as a decentralized registry for MCP servers, promoting transparency, security, and community-driven development. With its comprehensive CLI and support for a wide variety of tool types, BLAH empowers anyone to create and share AI tools, meaningfully extending AI capabilities across different systems and technical backgrounds.

  • Developed an open-source ecosystem to manage, distribute, and execute AI tools using MCP, promoting transparency and decentralized control.

  • Architected the registry to support various storage options including local, cloud, IPFS, or gists.

  • Implemented a comprehensive CLI for tool publishing, discovery, and management.

  • Supported wide variety of tool types, including functions, REST endpoints, local files, and standard manifests.

  • Developed an agent behavior model to support parallel execution, recursive tool calls, branching workflows, sequential processing, and complex graph-based workflows.

  • Established robust security measures, including optional signing and verification of MCP servers, code execution in sandboxed environments, and comprehensive logging for accountability.

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