University of Southern Queensland

Lead Software Engineer at Department of Justice NSW

Skills: Software Development · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Large Language Models (LLM) · Go (Programming Language) · Python (Programming Language)

Nullify

Senior Software/AI Engineer

- Full stack development of a project management web app for the construction industry 
- Next JS, MongoDB, and a little bit of GoLang and Rails 
- Won an internal hackathon by using AI to provide a summary of what changes have happened since a previous milestone.

Mastt

Lead Software Engineer

- Primary developer for the AI agents behind GPT Pilot 
- Used Open AI API and Python code to orchestrate a team of AI agents 
- GPT Pilot walks the user through the creation of a new software project 
- Automated project inception, coding and debugging 
- Managed public feature bug/feature requests, PRs through GitHub 
- Addressed users’ questions and suggestions through Discord

GPT Pilot

Python AI Developer

- “Day 1” employee of a start-up 
- Created and managed product backlog using GitHub Projects 
- Created a working demo of an AI-based application with a new team in just over 2 weeks 
- Python development – Fast API, LangChain, OpenAI 
- Prompt engineering

Facere AI

Technical Lead, Scrum Master, Python AI Developer 

- Mentored 4 junior/mid-level developers
- Conducted technical interviews for the Australian and Singapore offices
- Ran technical sharing sessions on Logging, TDD, CI/CD, Design Patterns and new Java APIs

PALO IT

Software Engineering Manager

- API development in Java (8, 18) and Typescript for NodeJS
- CI/CD pipeline configuration for GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps for deployment to AWS & Azure
- Development of React web applications

Full-Stack Tech Lead

Developed GraphQL API (Node JS on AWS Lambda) as part of a new UTS initiative to help students and employees of partner organisations to determine which courses/subjects would help them obtain the new skills/experience they desire.

University of Technology Sydney

Senior Software Engineer

•	Developed and deployed Angular 9/Java 8 app to help NSW residents affected by drought to access a “water carting” grant
•	Developed and deployed Angular 9/Java 8 app in 4 weeks to allow mobility impaired people apply for a parking permit online, and avoiding possible exposure to COVID-19
•	Adapted an existing React/Java 8 app to help NSW residents find various forms of assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Deployed to production within weeks
•	Adapted an existing React/Java 8 app to help parents find providers registered with the Active Kids vouchers program. Deployed to production within weeks
•	Developed and deployed Angular 9/Java 8 app to help international students access a grant for emergency accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic
•	Worked with SNSW UI team to build re-usable web components including address input, date input & file upload components
•	Developed CI/CD pipelines in GitLab & PCF

Hypothesis

Software Engineering Consultant

Development of web applications using Typescript for Node and Angular 1.5 components. Serverless architecture - JWT, AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Cloud Formation, Docker, Cucumber BDD.

Department of Justice NSW

AWS infrastructure management using CloudFormation and Puppet.

Web development in Java, Grails and AngularJS. OAuth for AngularJS frontend and microservices using Spring Security.

Worked on an embedded UI using AngularJS, Java and the Eclipse Framework.

Fluent Commerce

Java Developer

Studying AngularJS, Ruby on Rails, Scala and various other technologies

Self Employed

Self-directed study

Developed a BDD test harness for the public transport information and priority system. (Cucumber, Ruby, Java). Implemented bidirectional integration with JIRA and Cucumber.

Documented coding standards and configured PMD, Checkstyle and Sonar.

Mavenisation and migration from CVS to Git for about 100 projects.

Created Grunt build script which generated webfonts, minified javascript, filtered command line arguments and file-based properties into javascript and html files, generated test report and sonar quality reports.

Configuration and maintenance of dozens of automated CI builds in Jenkins and Bamboo. Modified Jenkins to enforce Maven versioning and git branching policies.

Created an MVC-style Puppet configuration management system managed by git and Jenkins.

Installed, configured and supported:
 - GitLab source control server
 - Nexus maven repository
 - Jenkins CI server
 - Sonar code quality reporting server
 - Puppet configuration management system

Transport for NSW

Senior Software Engineer (Java/Test/Build/Release)

Development of a BDD test harness for the public transport information and priority system.

Cucumber driven automated test system for
 - web services
 - web UI, including Google Maps
 - Map-based Android physical device and emulator
 - Map-based iOS physical devices simulator

Roads and Maritime Services

Senior Test/Software Engineer

Development of VXML applications in Java EE. Natural language speech processing, biometric identification and verification etc for call centres.

Integrated in-house automated testing framework with CruiseControl, Bugzilla, SVN, Maven & Eclipse.

Salmat

Software Engineer

Zetron

Firmware Engineer

Responsible for development of software for VoIP (Voice over IP) proxy and audio recorder.  The system used RTP (Real-Time Transport Protocol) for transmission over UDP network.  The software ran on a Linux system and used the pthread library and stl.  Documentation was provided in UML.

Jacques Electronics

Embedded Software Engineer (short term contract)

Embedded C and C++.  Firmware, Windows kernel driver and COM DLL for USB support.  Device driver for Smart Card in DVB set top box.

Nicholas Albion