| Employer |
Lyft - San Francisco, California |
| Position |
Software Engineer |
| Date |
May, 2013 - Current |
| Description |
- Driver Onboarding
- Enterprise
- Identity
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| Employer |
Datacom - Wellington, New Zealand |
| Position |
Senior Software Developer |
| Date |
July, 2012 - May, 2013 |
| Description |
- Currently working on a web-based mapping tool that allows easy importing and visualisation of real-time geographic datasets (csv's, shapefiles, etc) on choropleth maps.
- The back-end is written in GeoDjango with PostGIS. I wrote a REST API (using django-tastypie) to manage the geographic datasets. I extended a library called django-dynamo that allows the ability to generate GeoDjango models at runtime.
- The front-end is written in Backbone.js, Backbone.Marionette.js, Handlebars.js for templating, and Leaflet.js for client-side mapping.
- I wrote a Django app for serving GeoJSON tiles (on PyPI), and a Leaflet.js library to render GeoJSON tiles (here).
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| Employer |
Trulia Inc - San Francisco, California |
| Position |
Software Engineer |
| Date |
June, 2011 - June, 2012 |
| Description |
- Wrote GeoJSON data tile and WMS image tile APIs for school, crime and commute heatmaps, using Django and PostGIS.
- Managed the import over 30 million crimes, 10 million census blocks and other census shapefiles for the US.
- Managed API deployment to staging and production: wrote automated deployment script in Fabric; configured supervisord, gunicorn and nginx servers; configured PostgreSQL with streaming replication.
- Participated in product planning meetings, daily scrums and retrospective meetings.
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| Employer |
Datacom - Wellington, New Zealand |
| Position |
Java Developer |
| Date |
March, 2010 - June, 2011 |
| Description |
- Development of an application for Telecom New Zealand, which facilitated B2B communication between Chorus and Service Companies in a J2EE environment, using JAX-WS web services. The application was written in Spring Framework 2.5 and Hibernate on IBM WebSphere Application Server 7 and Oracle 11g. The web UI was written in JSP with Apache Tiles and JQuery. I was involved in the project from the requirements gathering phase to go-live.
- Developed a heat map web application prototype for Chorus using the Google Maps API V3 for Javascript. A screenshot of a map with dummy test data can be seen here.
I wrote two overlays: a weather overlay, which used JSONP to retrieve weather data; and a statistics overlay, which displayed real-time Chorus business statistics for New Zealand regions. The regions were made up of two sets of polygons at different zoom levels, coloured based on a predefined metric. The colours faded in real-time using statistics from a JSON feed.
The prototype allowed Chorus to visualize their region based data across New Zealand and make decisions proactively. The heat map gained funding to turn into a final product as I was leaving, so I wrote a developer guide to ensure continued development went smoothly.
- Set up automated ANT builds and continuous integration using Hudson.
- Configured server clusters in UNIX environment.
- Wrote release notes and deployment instructions for staging and production environments.
- Worked in a small team of developers, testers, business analysts and project managers.
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| Employer |
Independent Contractor |
| Date |
March, 2008 - March, 2009 |
| Description |
- Worked on psnetwork.org.nz. This involved basic PHP programming with a MySQL database. I transitioned the website to use the Silverstripe Sapphire framework, so network members were able to update site content independently
- Designed and wrote object-oriented scraper system in PHP for a job website to scrape jobs from a range of third-party sources
- Developed jonnyandthedreamboats.com website in PHP with a MySQL database, Flash Actionscript 3.0, which also included a backend to update upcoming events and photo galleries
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| Employer |
Weta Digital Ltd - Wellington, New Zealand |
| Position |
Python Developer |
| Date |
November, 2009 - February, 2010 |
| Description |
- Developed web application to display diagnostic information about a selected shot within a scene of a film. This helped artists to see an overview of lighting, camera and other assets used within a shot. The initial development involved writing regular expressions to parse custom file metadata, and HTML/CSS/Javascript/JQuery to display the information.
- Rewrote a web application to allow artists to submit requests for show reels, and administrators to approve and generate the show reels. I simplified the existing web application by allowing the request process to take place using one screen, which replaced the existing 5-screen request process, making it easier for the artists to submit requests. Both web applications were developed in the Pylons framework for Python, with a RESTful web service architecture.
- Converted Perl CLI scripts to Python and upgrading the scripts to access an Apache Solr database, which resulted in a simple API for Solr access that other developers could reuse.
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| Employer |
Career Group Ltd : Wellington, New Zealand |
| Position |
PHP Developer |
| Date |
July, 2008 - October, 2009 |
| Description |
- Maintained the www.jobs.co.nz website, which involved learning the PHP Zend Framework and the Model-View-Controller pattern quickly
- Worked with an external customer on a white label solution by transforming the Jobs.co.nz codebase to suit their requirements. This improved my ability to communicate with non-technical people
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