Software engineer / Melbourne

Software that holds up.

Frontend-focused engineering for data-heavy products, APIs, and systems.

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Recent experience

Production web engineering at PoliceTax

Education

Software Engineering (Honours), Monash

Engineering range

React to Linux

Based in

Melbourne, AU

Experience with real constraints.

Product delivery, teaching, cloud infrastructure, and enough systems work to follow a problem past the browser.

Jun 2026 - present

Software Developer

PoliceTax

Build and maintain production tax websites in PHP and JavaScript, including shared components used across PoliceTax and five sister sites.

  • Standardised shared headers, footers, and responsive styling across six live websites.
  • Refactored legacy templates, site-specific calls to action, and outdated interface elements into a more consistent system.
  • Troubleshoot PHP templates, booking modals, responsive layout issues, and production caching quirks.

Nov 2025 - Mar 2026

Software Engineering Intern

Diagno Energy

Built customer-facing React interfaces for a data-heavy energy platform and supported production issues across frontend and API layers.

  • Built a Portfolio Map with React, TypeScript, and React-Leaflet for navigating large solar fleets and site-level issues.
  • Integrated GraphQL and Apollo data while tightening TypeScript types around backend models.
  • Triaged more than 20 Jira tickets by reproducing bugs and tracing faults across browser and API layers.

Apr 2023 - Jul 2025

Software Engineer, HPC Lead

Monash DeepNeuron

Built and operated a small distributed research cluster, including scheduling, command-line tooling, networking, and support material.

  • Ran containerised workloads across nodes with OpenMPI and implemented a lightweight scheduler core in Go.
  • Built Python CLI tooling for job submission, monitoring, retries, and operational support.
  • Improved reliability through Linux networking, health checks, alerting, debugging, and practical runbooks.

Jun 2022 - Dec 2022

Software Engineering Intern

Alex Solutions

Delivered and supported features for a React and Node.js data-orchestration application used by more than 200 enterprise users.

  • Optimised Node.js REST APIs to improve response time by approximately 25% and documented them for handover and QA.
  • Improved AWS CodeDeploy workflows, reducing deployment time by approximately 40%.
  • Wrote regression checks with SQL and AWS tooling to cover important production workflows.

Where I am strongest.

Product interfaces

React and Next.js UI, data visualisation, forms, loading states, and performance work close to the user.

Application boundaries

Node.js APIs, validation, authentication, data shape, and the server decisions that keep frontend work simple.

Systems range

AWS, Linux, Docker, networking, security labs, and enough low-level work to debug beyond the browser.

Work you can inspect.

Real builds, the tradeoffs behind them, and what I would improve now.

View work
Global energy dashboard project visual

Product project / Data visualisation and frontend

Global energy dashboard

An interactive Vega-Lite project that turns several energy datasets into linked comparisons across countries, continents, and time.

  • Vega-Lite
  • JavaScript
  • Data visualisation
  • Python

Latest note / July 10, 2026 / 4 min

One backend, many brands

What maintaining a network of profession-specific tax websites taught me about shared templates, configuration boundaries, and safe production changes.

I write down the parts that changed how I work, especially the mistakes worth avoiding twice.

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A short message is enough.

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