Made a mobile-optimized schedule for the Agile Australia 2010 conference. Released both an internal and direct to customer insurance quoting website for Swann Insurance (a division of CGU).

• Bootstrapped an automated integration test framework for a Mobile Safari environment.
• Optimized Javascript and CSS3 transitions to improve application responsiveness.
• Reviewed a secure online payment protocol.

Worked remotely to audit and rebuild the operating system for a heart defect detector currently in human testing.

• Wrote a toolchain for automated construction and maintenance of the operating system, removing legacy features and improving the user experience.
• Reimplemented an audio layer, maintaining compatibility and improving output quality.
• Researched and documented methods for emulating the device environment.
• Added support for the latest Linux kernel features to a vendor provided IO interface driver.

Went backpacking for a year and a half. Inadvertently circumnavigated. Kept writing code.

• Contributed to the Eventlet high-performance networking library enough to be listed as an author.
• Wrote a photo uploader robust to third-world Internet connections and capable of quickly finding duplicates from thousands of photos using targeted hashing.
• Put together an e-mail driven daily journal interface to a blogging web service.
• Inspired by a Eurovision artist, made a tool to call faraway friends with the music of your choice.
• Added a JSON frontend to the Notmuch full-text mail indexer, removing the blocker to the now growing client ecosystem.

Lead developer on the management interface for operating system deployment and software lifecycle management products.

• Improved ease of use by reusing the Visual Studio framework.
• Designed compilers, translators and analysis tools for interoperation with external data sources.
• Pursued an aggressive knowledge-sharing programme including talks, wiki, and mentoring.

Led a small team in the design and implementation of a web service for the secure transfer of documents between universities.

• Drove client needs investigation and deployment negotiations.
• Decreased operating cost by researching and championing the use of open technologies.

Created software for integrating data into one of the world's largest network security traffic databases.

• Solved information correlation problems on massive amounts of raw and partially processed data.
• Optimized multiple data pipelines reducing latency typically from the order of one month to 30 minutes.

Wrote and maintained a report generation tool for use with a portable Ethernet tester.

• The tool is one of the cornerstones of a widely sold and licensed product.
• Assisted in the development of the tester's firmware.

Built, secured and managed a small business LAN.

• Leveraged open source tools on commodity hardware for significant cost savings.
• Deployed web applications for remote access and customer support.

Computer Science
(pending certification)

• IEEE of WSU (Junior Chair 2005, Vice-Chair 2006)
• EECS Student Ambassador (2007)
• Student Lecturer in topics including software construction and validation, proactive debugging,
  web service security, distributed version control, and Internet identity systems.

• Student Government (Senator 1998-2000, Justice 2000)

Actively contribute to numerous projects including Debian, GNOME, and Ubuntu.

My favorite pastimes are bicycling, bouldering, and climbing to the tops of closed buildings.