Skills & Proficiencies
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Built countless projects on AWS of all types, complexities, and scales. Architected and operated a scale-to-zero webapp that seamlessly handled viral success. Experience adapting and optimising monolith applications to make efficient use of the AWS platform.
1000+ hours experience- EC2 Running production workloads in EC2 with Application Load Balancers and Auto Scaling Groups. Using IAM Instance Roles for securely interacting with other AWS services.
100+ hours experience - Lambda Developed proof-of-concept APIs using Lambda with DynamoDB and API Gateway. Developed custom Alexa Skills using Alexa Skills Kit. Developed Lambda-backed CloudFormation custom resources. Automated infrastructure management tasks with Lambda & SNS. Used Lambda@Edge to implement password protection and other features for CloudFront.100+ hours experience
- CloudFormation Migrated existing infrastructure for a complex SaaS application to be managed by CloudFormation. Created numerous Lambda-backed custom resources to enhance capabilities of CloudFormation, including fully-automating HTTPS certificate acquisition.100+ hours experience
- Elastic Beanstalk Deploying, operating, and maintaining a mission-critical application with thousands of daily active users.100+ hours experience
- S3 Created an automated tiered backup system using S3 Lifecycle Policies. Designed & implemented a system to allow users to upload large files from any platform using S3 Multipart Uploads, EvaporateJS, Cognito & AWS Amplify. Hosted static websites using S3 Static Website Hosting and CloudFront.100+ hours experience
- CloudFront Hosted single-page apps and static websites on CloudFront. Used CloudFront as a CDN for videos and other media. Used Lambda@Edge to password protect sites, as well as to implement custom redirects and other functionality.100+ hours experience
- Cognito Used Cognito User Pools to rapidly develop proof-of-concept applications. Used Cognito Federated Identities with Developer Authenticated Identities to safely grant users with limited direct access to S3 services.100+ hours experience
- IAM Created many IAM Policies, Roles & Users according to Principle of Least Privilege. Utilised Conditions in order to facilitate automated testing of an application under different sets of permissions.100+ hours experience
- RDS Administrated multiple highly-available production databases.
10+ hours experience - CodeBuild/CodePipeline Created an automated multi-stage build process for Gatsby websites using CodeBuild, CodePipeline, and gatsby-plugin-s3.10+ hours experience
- Simple Queue Service Used SQS for efficient data processing in a scale-to-zero microservices application.10+ hours experience
- CloudWatch Developed a simple daemon process to provide custom metrics about per-method resource utilisation, allowing for visibility into which parts of the application had the most potential for optimisation. Used CloudWatch Events to create a scaleable cron alternative.10+ hours experience
- AWS Elastic Transcoder Architected and implemented an adaptive streaming system using Elastic Transcoder to transcode videos at multiple bitrates.10+ hours experience
- Amazon Connect Designed a call-centre IVR workflow using Amazon Connect, including mechanism for callers to request a callback instead of waiting on hold.100+ hours experience
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- DynamoDB Developed scale-to-zero queue management and fan-in processing as part of a complex data processing pipeline. Additional experience using DynamoDB for rapid-prototyping.100+ hours experience
- API Gateway Design of public-facing Lambda-backed APIs.100+ hours experience
- Route 53 10+ hours experience
- Certificate Manager Acquired and deployed HTTPS certificates for CloudFront & Load Balancers. Developed automation for this process.10+ hours experience
- IoT Core Created a proof-of-concept demo allowing multiple devices to communicate via AWS IoT Device Shadows & Messages.10+ hours experience
- Simple Notification Service Allowed cloud-hosted applications to react to events generated by AWS services, such as Elastic Transcoder. Automatically whitelisted AWS service IP addresses for private apps using AmazonIpSpaceChanged topic. Allowed CloudWatch to send SMS messages to key personnel when certain alerts were triggered.10+ hours experience
- Lightsail 10+ hours experience
- EC2
- C# My first true love. Still one of my favourite languages.1000+ hours experience
- Umbraco Worked on multiple Umbraco sites, both frontend and back-office features. Built a flexible WYSIWYG editor that allows non-technical users to build visually-impressive, responsive pages.1000+ hours experience
- .NET Core Wrote an integration to transfer data from a cloud-based system to an on-prem solution. Created a tool for retrieving data from failing Solid State Drives.100+ hours experienceshow fewer...
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- Avalonia Created a simple GUI wrapper for a data export script.10+ hours experience
- Avalonia
- LINQ Simplified and accelerated processing of business-logic using LINQ.10+ hours experience
- Umbraco
- JavaScript (Browser) I find JavaScript's quirks very endearing.1000+ hours experience
- Angular (2.0+) Used Angular for several published hobby projects and many unpublished ones. Planned and contributed to upgrade from AngularJS to Angular via hybrid app approach.1000+ hours experience
- React Use of React SSR in Static Site Generation projects. Development of custom client-side components, including support for hydration.100+ hours experience
- AngularJS (1.x) Built highly-complex interactive webapps using AngularJS. Optimsed AngularJS apps to run on low-performance platforms such as Smart TVs. Very familiar with directives, services, digest cycle, scopes, etc...1000+ hours experience
- VanillaJS No jQuery, no framework. One of my favourite ways for putting together a fast proof-of-concept or a simple tool.100+ hours experience
- Vis.js Timeline Created an interactive timeline-based webapp, with deep integration with AngularJS via a custom directive. Contributed multiple significant performance improvements upstream.100+ hours experience
- Angular (2.0+)
- TypeScript My favourite language. Experience targeting both browsers and NodeJS. Striving for full static typing. Comfortable with advanced typing features such as generics, intersection & union types, type guards, aliases, etc...1000+ hours experience
- NodeJS Have written static content generators, simple APIs, realtime video processing pipelines, business-logic integrations, and more.1000+ hours experience
- CSS Experienced practitioner of Progressive Enhancement. (Try disabling JavaScript on this site.) I love doing things in CSS that most developers don't realise are possible.1000+ hours experience
- SCSS Authoring stylesheets using SCSS syntax.10+ hours experience
- SCSS
- Terraform Wrote several open source modules for deploying static websites to AWS S3+CloudFront. Used Terraform to manage infrastructure for multiple cloud-native applications.100+ hours experience
- Video manipulation Built systems for processing both live and on-demand video content. Very familiar with high-level concepts such as transcoding, remuxing, encoding, and decoding.100+ hours experience
- ffmpeg Used ffmpeg fairly extensively for transcoding, remuxing, and simple editing. Integrated ffmpeg programmatically for processing live and on-demand videos. Used complex filters to convert Advanced SubStation subtitles to transparent video.100+ hours experience
- gstreamer Designed and deployed live video transcoding pipelines in gstreamer.10+ hours experience
- mpeg-ts Limited experience directly manipulating mpeg-ts streams. Wrote an open-source library (mpegts-tools) for performantly parsing mpeg-ts streams in NodeJS.10+ hours experience
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- AviSynth/AviSynth+ Automated simple video editing tasks.100+ hours experience
- DVBdirect/DVBjet Used DVBjet to create livestreams based on terrestrial TV.10+ hours experience
- HLS.js Built a simple video player using HLS.js, including extensive error handling.10+ hours experience
- ffmpeg
- SQL Experience with MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, and SQLite. Architected fully- and partially-normalised databases. Proficient at using EXPLAIN to optimise existing queries.1000+ hours experience
- Interpersonal Well-liked and respected by previous coworkers. Friendly, approachable, and usually able to point people in the right direction.1000+ hours experience
- Teaching Passionate about helping others understand technology concepts. Able to simplify complicated concepts for laypeople, or provide in-depth technical explanations for developers. Helped teachers teach programming to other students while in highschool.1000+ hours experience
- Support Provided tier 1, 2 & 3 support for over a year at a company with no dedicated support staff. Was often specifically requested by frequent callers.100+ hours experience
- Code reviews Reviewed many pull requests. Strict code-cleanliness standards. Careful to keep all criticism constructive.100+ hours experience
- Leadership Technical Lead for a team as it grew from 4-15 developers.1000+ hours experience
- Teaching
- Date & Time Inadvertantly become passionate about dates, times, timezones and their representations within computers. Can tell you the difference between POSIX and ISO GMT offsets, how UTC is based on a false premise but is still worth using almost everywhere, or why an Olson timezone name is superior to a timezone abbreviation.100+ hours experience
- Moment.js Developed a private library for working with recurring events.100+ hours experience
- Chronos (CakePHP) Assistance porting a private library for working with recurring event library to PHP.10+ hours experience
- Noda Time Ensured correct handling of timezones while developing a system for converting exported data between two different formats.10+ hours experience
- Moment.js
- IT Administration 1000+ hours experience
- ASD Essential Eight Implemented Essential Eight Mitigation Strategies as outlined by Australian Signals Directorate.100+ hours experience
- Microsoft Intune / Endpoint Manager Wrote configurations to enhance security. Packaging Win32 apps.100+ hours experience
- Android Work Profiles / iOS User Enrollment Assured users of privacy of personal data. Wrote and tested configurations for Data Leakage Prevention. Documented enrollment process. Developed plan for rollout.100+ hours experience
- Airlock (Application Whitelisting) Responded to user requests for adding applications to whitelist. Evaluated business use case and security implications of new applications. Updated whitelist in response to application updates. Troubleshooting related issues.100+ hours experience
- Email hardening Setting up DKIM for many different services. Tightening SPF rules. Monitoring DMARC reports (both manually and via Valimail). Enforcing DMARC.100+ hours experience
- ASD Essential Eight
- Static Site Generation Development & deployment of many cost-effective & fast websites. Created/maintained multiple open source tools for infrastructure provisioning and content deployment.1000+ hours experience
- Gatsby Leveraged Gatsby to build my blazing-fast blog, along with several other websites. Have written or contributed to several open source Gatsby plugins.100+ hours experience
- Parcel.js Built this website, other websites, and several Single-Page Applications. Experience with both v1 and v2.100+ hours experience
- Gatsby
- Docker Dockerised my homelab. Published several open source Docker images and compose files.100+ hours experience
- Dockerfile Published several open source Docker images for various purposes.10+ hours experience
- Compose Extensive use of Compose for managing my homelab.100+ hours experience
- Dockerfile
- Linux Used Linux extensively for both personal & professional purposes. Hosted production services on CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu Server, Alpine, etc... Comfortable with GNU utils, can also use BusyBox utils. Used Ubuntu as my primary desktop environment for several months.100+ hours experience
- PowerBI Created dataflows to ingest and transform ESdat-format CSV data received from labs. Designed and refined reports tailor-made for specific use cases.100+ hours experience
- PHP Architecture, ownership, and maintenance for legacy and greenfields projects. Large scale automated refactorings. Performance optimisation via Blackfire and xdebug.1000+ hours experience
- CakePHP Architected a scaleable API for a highly-complex SaaS solution. Assisted development team with performance optimisations.1000+ hours experience
- PHPUnit Designed testing methodology for a large scale SaaS solution. Modified setUp/tearDown system to improve performance, allowing thousands of tests to be run without taking multiple hours. Assisted team with writing tests.100+ hours experience
- WordPress Wrote some plugins, customised some themes. Developed a self-service portal to allow designers to create new websites with our standard plugins preinstalled, migrate websites between different servers (dev/prod), safely move websites to different domains, and backup websites.100+ hours experience
- phpBB Developed secure invite-only forums to allow a vendor and their customers to discuss sensitive topics privately.100+ hours experience
- CakePHP
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- Hardware Here are my meatspace skills.100+ hours experience
- PC building Built more than 10 PCs. Upgraded more than 15. Experienced at selecting cost-effective parts within a variety of budgets.100+ hours experience
- Specialised server design Part-selection for a purpose-built video transcoding server.10+ hours experience
- 3D modelling (CAD) Familiar with SolidEdge, 3DS Max, Fusion360, Blender, OpenSCAD, SolveSpace, SketchUp, 123D Design, etc... Crafted 3D animations and designed prototype hardware.100+ hours experience
- 3D printing (CAM) 3D printing enthusiast. Produced prototype/proof-of-concept parts in a variety of materials on my FFF printer. Understand the relative strengths and weaknesses of different printing technologies such as SLA and SLS.100+ hours experience
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- Custom loop water cooling Designed and built a custom water cooling loop for my primary personal computer.10+ hours experience
- Electronics Hobbyist-level understanding of electronics.10+ hours experience
- PC building
- GLua 100+ hours experience
- Python Built simple scripts using libraries such as Scrapy and PRAW. Experimented with machine learning stuff using Numpy & Tensorflow. Managed dependencies using pipenv.100+ hours experience
- GML 100+ hours experience
- SharePoint JSOM Built a library for creating advanced cross-platform SharePoint forms with AngularJS to replace InfoPath.100+ hours experience
- XSLT Created simple data visualisations for SharePoint dashboards.10+ hours experience
- Power Automate Automated simple tasks in SharePoint and Exchange Online.10+ hours experience
