Work Experience

Microsoft Jan 2019 —

Vancouver, CA

• Software engineer on the Microsoft News (MSN) team.

Little Giant Feb 2018 — Nov 2018

Auckland, NZ

• Backend developer on client websites and internal tooling.
• Led backend development start-to-finish on two client sites and new project template for whole agency.
• Identified use case and developed an internal CLI tool to automate common tasks.
• Numerous open source contributions, including heavy development on an e-commerce project.

Microsoft Dec 2016 — Feb 2017

Redmond, USA

• Software engineering internship with the Universal Store Commerce Services Team.
• Created analysis pipelines for service monitoring, and accompanying dashboard.

University of Auckland Nov 2015 — Feb 2016

Auckland, NZ

• Summer Research Scholarship in the Faculty of Engineering.
• Worked on Active Classroom Programmer (ACP), a tool for lecturers teaching practical programming classes.

Spinning Planet Web Design Dec 2014 — Nov 2015

Palmerston North, NZ / Auckland, NZ (Remote)

• 3 months full-time, then part-time with university as a remote developer on the same project.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE Hons.) 2014 — 2017

University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ

• Specialising in Software Engineering.
• Awarded with First Class Honours.

Projects

InteractiveOOP

Educational Unity app for Honours project

• BE Hons research project, completed as a pair.
• Published as Interactive Learning of Abstract Programming Concepts with InteractiveOOP (presented at LaTICE 2018).
• Researched interactive teaching of abstract programming concepts. Created an app based on the research, to help 2nd-year students revise OOP concepts.

Ex Umbra

Unity game for software engineering design course

• Exploring serious games and game design concepts.
• Worked on complex camera and enemy behaviour.

Task Scheduler

Algorithmic Java project for software engineering design course

• Dependency graph scheduler using a parallelised Java program.
• Parallelisation and dynamically re-allocating processing between multiple threads.
• Topological sort implementation was merged into the Graphstream algorithms library.