As a Full-Stack Software Engineer and Technical Lead in Kobe, Japan, I love creating delightful digital products using Ruby on Rails and AWS, with a fondness for good UI/UX.
I can help you analyse business problems and advise technologies and software solutions to solve them.
As a full stack developer, I can bring designs and prototypes to life using Ruby on Rails and front end Javascript libraries.
Leveraging my 25 year history in building software, I can conduct technical reviews for code quality and development process improvements.
Dec 2010 - Current
As CTO, I helped it grow from a small startup to a multi million dollar company with over 30 staff. Along the way I've led a team of engineers to build a dashboarding and analytics SaaS, setup a 30 person on-premise call centre, built an event tracking and data pipeline capable of handling thousands of RPS, and applied machine learning to optimise marketing spend.
Sep 2006 - Current
Over the years I have developed websites and web applications for small businesses, startups and not for profits such as SoundSpace and the Neue Geographical Society.
Mar 2007 - Dec 2010
Built a Real Estate SaaS to manage properties, inspections, vendors and tenants that served over 400 real estate agencies in Australia; one of Australia's first large scale Ruby on Rails projects.
Of my own initiative, I turned the website development arm of the business from a loss leader to high profitability by developing a hierarchical, multi-tenant CMS using Ruby that sharply decreased costs in building new real estate websites and property portals.
Jan 2007 - Jan 2019
Technical Lead for a Business and Formal wear online store. Created an interactive Flash application allowing customisation of every part of a Shirt or Suit and visualise it before purchase.
Apr 2002 - Apr 2006
Lead developer/architect of the Applications Group building web and desktop software such as instant messaging clients, intranets and POS systems for Japanese retail stores.
Dec 1997 - Apr 2002
Helped to build the Australian Yellow and White pages online search engines using Java and C. Also provided Systems Integration consulting in industries such as Telecommunications, Higher Education and Retail.
Ruby
Javascript
HTML / CSS
Elixir
Python
Currently learning Swift
Webflow / Squarespace / Shopify / Spree
Postgresql
Heroku / Cloud66
Amazon Web Services / Digital Ocean
Twilio / Aircall
Salesforce / Zoho
Education
Real Estate
Sales & Marketing
Fashion / Retail
2006 - 2009