I'm a Full Stack Software Developer with a love for React, headless tech and UI/UX. I have a proven track record in leading projects and optimising team processes. In my current role as a Software Engineer at Made Curious., I have worked in project teams as well as in the Managed Services team where I was also the Product Owner.
Some things about me:
Working in tech since 2015
Microsoft alumni
Amateur artist
Lived in Japan for 5 years ⛩️
Fluent in Japanese 🇯🇵 and a little Bahasa Indonesian 🇮🇩
Horror & fantasy fan
Always tired learning 🌱
Great sense of humour..
Experience
Full Stack Software Engineer · Made Curious.
Hybrid – New Zealand
I currently work as a full stack engineer, developing solutions for projects across a variety of domains and tech stacks. My day-to-day is working with Javascript, Typescript, React and NodeJS to build new microservices to break down a decade old monolithic project, while still working on new features and improvements for other PHP based projects. I have worked in several different agile teams, quickly learning new domains and skills as required, and directly with clients such as the NZ Transport Agency, for which I was the main developer that built their new Journey Planner webapp.
Main developer and subject matter expert on 4 projects, leading the technical approach to development and demoing/running work in progress meetings with clients.
Create clear and concise documentation of features, projects, and processes used in our day-to-day work.
Refine and write Acceptance Criteria alongside clients and stakeholders
Incident response, troubleshooting and resolution when outages occur
Integration with third party apps, APIs and CMS systems
Manage and run production releases
Sep 2021 – Present
Full Stack Software Developer · Freelance
Hybrid – New Zealand
Following graduation from a software development bootcamp, I worked for myself until finding a permanent fulltime role at Made Curious. During this time, I primarily worked on one main project to build a new WordPress website for a local martial arts club, as well as on some other smaller pieces of work around WordPress websites.
Built a new WordPress website for a local martial arts club and deployed to a Digital Ocean Droplet.
Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and ideas.
Created wireframe designs.
Managed WordPress updates and content editing.
Setup and enabled Google Analytics, and guided users in how to find their desired information from the platform.
An intensive 60-hour week Web Development Bootcamp which emphasised real world software development skills. This course focused on technologies such as MySQL, NodeJS, React, Javascript, HTML and CSS.
Nov 2020 – Mar 2021
University of Tokyo
Graduated from the AIKOM International Exchange Program in Japanese language and East Asian Studies, at the number one university in Japan.
2013 – 2014
University of Otago
Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese language and culture, and East Asian Studies in New Zealand.
2011 – 2015
Qualifications
Enspiral Dev Academy Web Development Training Scheme | NZQA Level 6