About Me
I'm a creative developer with a focus on Front End Development, Electron, React, Redux and more...
Who am I?
I am a well rounded web developer with a passion for creativity and new ideas. I love the feeling of accomplishment when you solve a problem and I always put in the extra effort to achieve that feeling. I am actively picking up new ideas and concepts and actively follow the BDD principles. I enjoy working in teams and know that working together you can achieve something brilliant.
Experience
The past is a tool to learn for the future
Education
Macleans College
2010 - 2014
High School
I graduated High School, where I enjoyed doing physics, maths and computer studies. After introducing myself to basic code in my first year of school I knew I had found what I wanted to do in the future. While at High School I sat the CIE examinations and achieved 2 A* and 3 A at A Level.
Auckland, New Zealand
Monash University
2015 - CURRENT
Bachelor of Software Engineering
I am currently studying Software Engineering at Monash University. It is great experience and I am learning many new things, I am looking forward to the IBL industry placement program and I am always keen to learn more.
Melbourne, Australia
Work
Orion Health
2014 - 2015
Software Engineering Intern
I was selected to take on an Internship position at Orion Health the summer before I started at University. I was placed on a team who were responsible for the creation and deployment of a project called xBDD. xBDD is a system that handles automated and manual testing of many of Orion's products. The project is now open source and can be viewed on GitHub
Auckland, New Zealand
Flash Maths NZ
2014 - CURRENT
Solo Web Developer (Personal Project)
This was a pet project that ended up being commissioned into something more serious. The basic idea was random maths questions that tested a child's basic mathematical abilities. This grew into a live multiplayer "Flash Maths" game and has now grown to a much larger codebase, with a variety of games including a live Mathex timer. It is currently being used in multiple schools.
All over the place
Tutor Link
2014
Web Development Contractor
Tutor Link is a "Young Enterprise" start up that had the aim of creating a simple unified solution for educational tutors to contacts tutee's and vice verse. They contacted me to see if I could build their entire online system (both front end and back end) for them. Within a few weeks I had a working demo to show them, and within a few months it was ready to be released. My system won them the "Xero Award for Innovation in ICT".
Auckland, New Zealand
Macleans College
2012 - 2015
Web Development Contractor
Here I designed and implemented a "Daily Notices" system that integrated perfectly into their existing SSO set up. It allows teachers to add, edit and delete notices and allows students to view them. Also in early 2015 I was contracted to make a system so that teachers could obtain feedback from students via an online form. For this I made a system that integrated deeply for the Google Drive APIs and so far it has been a massive success.
Auckland, New Zealand
Orion Health
2015 - 2016
Software Engineering Intern
I was invited back to Orion Health for a second internship at the end of my first year at University. This time around I was put with a team working on React base web components. It was my first time using React but now I can't imagine a world without it. Nearer the end of my time there I was placed on a team working on an Electron based desktop application. I already had some experience with Electron so my experience with that team was great.
Auckland, New Zealand
Open Source
OpenLog
2015 - CURRENT
An easy way to aggregate client side logging
OpenLog helps you track down client side javascript errors that you can never seem to replicate on your machine. Errors and stack traces that happen on any machine will be readily available to you via a web interface. This project was made because their were some errors users were reporting that I simply couldn't replicate, with this system setup I could see their errors as they happened with a full trace log. This vastly improved my error debug and fix time.
Melbourne, Australia
Google Play Music Desktop Player
2015 - CURRENT
A desktop player for Google Play Music
After waiting patiently for Google to release their own desktop player for Play Music I couldn't wait any more so I designed the simplest one I could. This project is based on the Electron framework for cross platform desktop applications. It currently has over 200,000 downloads and is growing every day.
Melbourne, Australia
Electron
2015 - CURRENT
Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Mostly thanks to the success of GPMDP I started contributing to the Electron project in early 2015, in July 2015 I was invited into the Electron Org on GitHub and continued supporting, improving and fixing Electron. Since then I have implemented a touch bar API, created a brand new build tool and helped out as many people as I can in the Electron Community. Electron is a new-found passion of mine and I hope to keep developing awesome things with it for a long time.
Melbourne, Australia
What can I do?
Think not what I can do for you. Actually... Do think that
Skills
Tools
Past Projects
What have I worked on that looks epic
An interactive maths learning assistant for kids struggling for basic facts. Designed and built by me, built on top of the PHP Slimframework and Bootstrap
A windows executable that embeds the Google Play Music web interface while adding support for media hotkeys and notification media control. The GitHub releases have tens of thousands of downloads and it is entirely open source. Written in Javascript (ES6) and uses the Electron framework
This system helps teachers obtain feedback from students via an online form. It integrates deeply with Google Drive APIs and is built on top of the same SSO integration framework as the Daily Notices.
Work in Progress
This is a project that I am currently working on in my spare time, the idea is to provide a place for high school students to ask questions and receive answers from their peers. The main goal of this project was too integrate into as many social media platforms as possible including Facebook, Google and Twitter.
Use Cukes for your automated and manual testing! This was the project that I worked on while at Orion Health that has since been open sourced. I am still a regular contributor to the repository.
An web based notices system with SSO integration. Designed to meet Google Material Design standards and is compatible with all modern web browsers
OpenLog helps you track down client side javascript errors that you can never seem to replicate on your machine. Now errors and stack traces that happen on any machine will be readily available to you. Using one JS file on your website and a simple node app on your server you can collect client side logs for anyone accessing your site.