Staff Software Engineer

Google

May 2022 – Present | Melbourne

Principal Software Engineer

Planet Innovation

April 2021 – May 2022 | Melbourne

• Project Lead on an embedded linux based product.

Principal Software Engineer

Two Bulls

August 2013 – April 2021 | Melbourne

• Leads the backend chapter with a responsibility for the mentoring and guiding of its members.
• Technical Lead on numerous projects delivering mobile and web applications.
• Individually contributed to many innovative products from Augmented Reality, IoT, mobile Bluetooth peripherals, and video distribution.
• Championed the practices of Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Delivery, and Observability, in order to get changes from development to production as quickly as possible.
• Management of software engineers to help them meet the businesses needs while pursuing their goals.

Software Developer

DiUS Computing

August 2012 – August 2013 | Melbourne

• Was part of the development team producing an iOS app for one of Australia's most recognised brands. Focused on development of security features including 2FA.
• Developed an interactive web application for the PowerVu embedded device.

Software Development Engineer

Amazon

February 2012 – July 2012 | Seattle

Software Developer

Quest Software

August 2010 – February 2012 | Melbourne

Was part of the Toad for Cloud Databases team, providing a data hub solution to allow people with SQL knowledge to query NoSQL databases in an easy and familiar way.

• Primarily responsible for the development of a MySQL database proxy for Linux and Windows, used to perform optimizations of heterogeneous queries. The data hub proxy was a core component in Toad for Data Analysts 3.0, Toad for Cloud Databases, and Quest Business Intelligence Studio.
• Developed a MySQL storage engine, to provide a method for querying NoSQL and Cloud database services with SQL.
• Contributed bug fixes to the MySQL and Drizzle open source projects.

Senior Software Engineer

Infinite Interactive

October 2007 – August 2010 | Melbourne

As a member of the Game Engine team, my role included adding new features to the engine and exposing them to Lua for the game play programmers, as well as maintenance and performance improvements.

• Developed the multiplayer networking system for PSP, Xbox 360 and PC.
• Designed and implemented our engines game object serialization system, which included bit packing of annotated attributes for more efficient memory usage on hand-held devices.
• Primary developer responsible for development and project troubleshooting on the Xbox 360. Played a secondary role in porting our engine to the Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation Portable platforms.

Contributed to 6 shipped titles

• Puzzle Quest: Revenge of the Plague Lord (Xbox 360)
• Neopets Puzzle Adventure (Nintendo Wii/PC)
• Puzzle Kingdoms (Nintendo Wii/Nintendo DS/PC)
• Puzzle Quest: Galactrix (Xbox 360/Nintendo DS/PC)
• Puzzle Chronicles (Xbox 360/Nintendo DS/Sony PlayStation Portable/PC)
• Puzzle Quest 2 (Xbox 360/Nintendo DS/Sony PlayStation Portable/PC)

Vividas - Video Player SDK

2017 – 2018

Cross platform video distribution and playback service for mobile and desktop. Strongly focused on performance and power efficiency for mobile devices.

• Core developer of cross platform video playback SDK (Windows, iOS, tvOS, macOS, and Android)
• Responsible for platform specific hardware accelerated h.264 decoder and asynchronous networking implementations
• Achieved goals of smooth, uninterrupted playback using low cpu and low power on phones including older budget models

Cartewheel - School Lunch Menu Planning

2016 – 2018

A web application that helps dietitians plan menus that meet USDA National School Lunch Program compliance standards.

• Solution Architect and Technical Lead during initial product development
• Performed handover to our US team while addressing performance and availability issues prior to launch

ATF Vision - Security Monitoring Service

2015 – 2020

The service provides intelligent video surveillance camera solutions for temporary security camera and construction site monitoring. The app gives customers instant access to their surveillance camera and allows them to view and control their site security.

• Solution Architect for backend service of mobile and web applications
• Long term service maintenance and ongoing improvements including replatforming using serverless technologies

Higgns - IoT

2015 – 2016

A distributed IoT rules engine for controlling your homes various devices with triggers and schedules.

• Core developer of embedded SDK (OpenWRT, iOS, macOS, and Android)
• Responsible for the data access layer
• Integrated a preview version of the AllJoyn Security 2.0 protocol
• Presented to the AllSeen Alliance on using Security 2.0 from a developers perspective

System for providing structured query language access to non-relational data stores

Patent number 9886483

Filed April 2011. Issued February 2018

Advanced Whiteboard hacking — Aka hands-on Threat Modeling

Joris Van den Broeck (Toreon)

OWASP AppSec Day 2019 | Melbourne

Seth & Ken's Excellent Adventures in Secure Code Review

Ken Johnson (GitHub) and Seth Law (Redpoint Security)

OWASP AppSec Day 2018 | Melbourne

Bughunting bootcamp - Discovering 0day

Eldar Marcussen (SEEK)

OWASP AppSec Day 2017 | Melbourne

AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate

2015

Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Science

RMIT University

2004 – 2006 | Melbourne

The majority of software development subjects at RMIT were completed using C and Java and were targeted at the Solaris operating system. I focused my studies on game development, databases, software development practices and methodologies, and programming languages.