About

I am an energetic and thoughtful person, driven for success. Whatever the task, be it building from scratch or debugging complex systems; once I sink my teeth in I don’t let go until it’s done. I am a polyglot with professional coding experience in Ruby, Python and ReactJS. I find myself a bit more comfortable writing scripts and slinging objects around in the back-end, but have the know-how to do most front-end stuff too. In my free time, if I’m not on my motorbike, or playing soccer with my teenage son, I find it refreshing to throw away all the boundaries and do creative writing as well, having published three eBooks on Amazon.

Blog

30 Aug 2017 . ruby code . From Certificate to Environment Variable Comments

G’day! After YAML ruined my day, I decided I would create a means for others to avoid such pain. Yesterday I spent some time creating a ruby class that will take an SSL certificate and turn it into an environment variable. I use the figaro gem to manage…

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Timeline

  • 1987-1997

    Studying hard: BA (Psychology) & PhD (Neuroscience)

  • 1997-2003

    Postdoctoral training in vision science

  • 2003-2013

    Lecturing at Universities Down Under

  • 2013-2015

    Writing & publishing eBooks

  • 2015-2016

    Metamorphosis: From Neurocientist to Programmer

  • 2016-2017

    Software Engineer at Gate121

  • 2017-2018

    Software Engineer/Data Scientist at Factil.io

  • 2018-2021

    Engineer at Envato

  • 2021-present

    Engineering Consultant at DiUS

Contact

Drop me an email if you are interested in me coding for you or zooming around Oz on a motorbike!