Australian Institute of Management

La Academia Peruana de Locución Juan Sifuentes

Auckland University of Technology

The University of Auckland

Mount Albert Grammar School

Data 61

ISR Training

Developer Experience Engineer

Empower developers across an increasing spectrum of ability to quickly and joyfully become productive with Camunda technologies by curating excellent developer journeys through documentation and product-adjacent tools.

Maintainer of the Node.js SDK for Camunda Platform 8.

Camunda

Magikcraft is the world's most innovative community for learning to code JavaScript in Minecraft. 

At Magikcraft I write highly-performant innovative software using TypeScript, Go, Lua, Java, and Kotlin. I tell the Magikcraft story, and teach kids to code while setting world records. I help define strategic direction and build strategic partnerships. I win hackathons and hustle to keep Magikcraft afloat as we pivot in search of our ultimate product, customer, and business model - all the while building our brand and community as we make the world a better place!

We are currently in the "Innovator" market segment of the Technology Adoption Lifecycle.

Our current focus is on delivering MC:T1 - Minecraft for Type 1 Diabetes - to market.

Magikcraft

Co-Founder

The Camunda Nation Podcast covers the community around Camunda and Zeebe, an open source workflow engine for microservices orchestration.

Zeebe Nation Podcast

Podcast Host

Developer Advocate

Design, development, implementation, and maintenance of Node.js and JavaScript applications  and related technologies and infrastructure. Maintainer of the Zeebe Node client library.

Credit Sense Australia

Full-stack JavaScript Engineer

Microsoft

Global Minecraft Mentor

Empowering a new generation of coders, mentoring at Node Girls Australia events in Brisbane.

NodeGirls Australia

JavaScript (Node.js) Mentor

The Best Tech Podcast in the World - not just an accurate description, that's the actual name of the podcast. Your host, the legendary Josh Wulf talks with entrepreneurs, devs, and dev managers, who share their keys to effectiveness.

The Best Tech Podcast in the World

Host

CoderDojo is an open source, volunteer led, global movement of free coding clubs for young kids 7 - 17. I mentor participants in programming in the Minecraft game world using Python and JavaScript. Since July 2017 I've been a lead mentor at Coder Dojo Brisbane Square Library.

CoderDojo

Lead Mentor

360-degree recruitment consultant. Empowering Australia's Silicon Economy and the career development of IT professionals in Australia and around the world. Committed to professional software development, professional software developers, making a difference using the tool of technology, and a world that works.

Just Digital People

The Legendary Josh Wulf ™ - As Seen on the Internet®

Wrote documentation for Red Hat's Qpid Messaging product.

Developing, testing, and documenting code examples in C#, C++, Node.js, Python, and Perl.

Red Hat

Senior Technical Writer

Designed documentation formats. 

Researched and developed semantic metadata, artificial intelligence, and modular content reuse. 

Researched and developed Red Hat's internal content management system, PressGang (JavaScript / TypeScript, Node.js, Knockout.js). 

Supervised academic internships at Red Hat. 

Published in the peer-reviewed journal Sepublica and presented at the Extended Semantic Web Conference in Crete in 2012.

Information Architect (R&D)

I've supervised six Griffith University Software Engineering Industry placements, both at Red Hat and at Just Digital People. While at Just Digital People, I added more interns and turned it into a reality show on YouTube, "The JDP Internship".
 
The World's #1 Software Development Reality Show follows the fortunes of an eclectic mix of final year university students doing their 3 month industry placement with Just Digital People, bored first-year students, recent arrivals to Australia looking for their first local commercial experience, and people undergoing a mid-career transition as they meet industry luminaries, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists. The interns build their reputation, relationships, their experience, and their careers - LIVE on camera!

The JDP Internship

Griffith University Software Engineering Industry Placement Supervisor

Managed people, process, and product for the integration of JBoss Middleware products into Red Hat's engineering backplane.

Participated in global engineering meetings in the US and Europe. Hired the team for Middleware documentation in Brisbane, the US, and the Czech Republic. Managed the Middleware documentation team in Brisbane.

Manager

Fusion Hot Yoga

Yoga Teacher

Organised and executed national tours by:

Gaura Vani and As Kindred Spirits
Amala Kirtan
Madhava
Vaiyasaki

Kirtan Australia

Director and Tour Manager

Wrote technical documentation. Conducted interviews of engineers and forensic research on code and issue trackers. Created product documentation plans and specifications. Managed documentation release cycle. Designed documentation output formats. Integrated JBoss documentation into the Red Hat brand and engineering process. Mentored and lead junior writers.

Wrote the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Installation Guide; the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2 Installation Guide; and the JBoss SOA Platform 4.3 Installation Guide.

Technical Writer

Provided technical support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 for global customers via telephone and email.

Technical Support

Directed publishing and distribution operations in South America across five countries. Oversaw production from translation through design through printing to distribution. Printed 17 titles. Developed commercial partnerships. Negotiated supplier contracts. Structured pricing.

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

Director - BBT Andino

1999 - aka "Y2K Eve" - was a Golden Year in IT. I spent the first half of the year doing contracting work, supporting the COBOL programming teams that had been resurrected to audit financial institutions' mainframe code. Wow, it was great. The Lord of the Rings was also being filmed, and Wellington was awash with cash from that and everyone who wasn't a Y2K gun for hire was an Orc, a horse wrangler, or a minion building the Dark Tower. 

After working at Prudential with their Lotus Notes system and Token Ring network (a real blast from the past), I took a contract role at Local Government New Zealand that turned into a permanent role as their Network and systems administrator. I migrated the organisation to Windows 2000 and replaced all the hardware with new Dell Systems. The server room had Windows NT, and I installed a Red Hat Linux server as a firewall and router.

Local Government New Zealand

Network and Systems Administrator

Developed a Windows port of the JobTrak issue tracking software.

Object-oriented design.
Microsoft SQL Server.
Borland Delphi.

Ontrack Systems

Software Developer - Borland Delphi

Assembled Intel-based 386 and 486 PCs.
Played Wolf 3D.

Eclipse Technology

Screwdriver monkey

Washing dishes in Gerhard's kitchen was a transformative experience. From the eclectic world music Gerhard played on the sound system to the live musicians who frequented and jammed to Gerhard's instruction in balancing the limited hot water with the requirement to rotate the limited glasses back into the cafe squeaky clean, it was all good.

The dishwashing dynamic would have made an awesome premise for an 8-bit micro game.

In the evenings I attended an AIT course in Micro-controller systems and designed computers on paper.