As a Software Engineer and Technical Lead in Melbourne, Australia, I love creating delightful digital products. I'm a Full Stack developer using Ruby on Rails, 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
Leading development of all technical projects at Alkhemy including development of a Marketing and Sales Analytics and Optimisation platform allowing businesses to better understand, visualise and improve the performance of internal and external marketing and sales teams.
Sep 2006 - Current
Founder of an agency that develops websites and provides IT services to small businesses, startups and not for profits.
Mar 2007 - Dec 2010
Initiated and spearheaded development of a Real Estate CMS using hierarchical components, templates and data, allowing quick rollout of websites for Real Estate group franchisees compared to the previous per franchisee business model. This quickly turned website development from being a loss leader to a profitable part of the business as it drastically reduced implementation time for large real estate groups.
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