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👋 Full Stack Web3 Engineer

Build | Ship | Repeat

In past lives I’ve been a management consultant, started and run a small business, and overseen multi-million dollar projects. I love building - physical or virtual - to solve tough problems that make a difference.

We’ve got an opportunity to rebuild our whole digital ecosystem, and rethink what data and ownership means. All while solving hard technical challenges. That’s why I’m in Web3. WAGMI

 

Portfolio

Example Web3 apps from my personal project hacking

Resume

Technical skills

Full Stack Web3 development skills, ranging from the development of the smart contract / blockchain program through to web app and UI/UX design, backend integration, deployment and hosting.

Blockchain

  • Ethereum & Polygon. Solidity smart contract development; Hardhat and Alchemy dev/production tools.

  • Solana & Terra. Rust program development; Anchor, Docker and Terrain dev tools; Metaplex tools.

Full stack web apps

  • Frontend. ReactJS, JavaScript, JSON, CSS & HTML languages. DOM manipulation, UI/UX workflow, responsive design.

  • Backend. NodeJS, JavaScript, Python & Ruby languages. API development, client/server/blockchain integration, communication with external services such as IPFS and Arweave storage. Hosting and deployment tools including Vercel, Heroku and Replit.

  • Other tools. Git version control, Visual Studio Code & IDE.

Professional skills

  • Project management. Full lifecycle management including project scoping and initiation, delivery and closure.

  • Team & contract management. Management of mid-sized delivery teams and external consultants and providers.

  • Stakeholder engagement. Communications strategy development and execution, for external stakeholders including a general audience and internal stakeholders including senior decision makers.

  • Data analysis, policy development & technical writing. Research, analysis and synthesis to inform policy recommendations and technical approaches during project delivery.

Work history

Web3 project hacker

  • Current (Australia)

  • Personal project hacking of fulls stack web 3 apps across Ethereum, Solana, Polygon and Terra chains. See Portfolio above.

Project manager/director

  • Victorian State Government and the City of Melbourne Council, 2017-2021 (Australia).

  • Largest project delivered a $50m security infrastructure upgrade across Melbourne public landmarks, to protect against hostile vehicle attacks. This involved coordinating across multiple government departments, managing the full project lifecycle and team of project managers and external consultants, change management, developing new technical standards for project design, briefing senior executive and the overseeing Minister, and overseeing communications strategy and materials.

Founder/director

  • Lexico Health, 2017-2020 (US).

  • Founded and directed a small business selling smart medical devices. Responsible for all technology development and maintenance, including phone/web apps, device integrations, and customer databases.

  • Wound down in 2020 due to overall state of market and supply chain and manufacturing disruptions.

Consultant

  • KPMG, 2015-2017 (Australia).

  • Clients included Australian government departments, large healthcare providers and non-profit organizations.

  • Technical projects included developing a new agent-based transport model for use in assessing major infrastructure builds, health and demographic data analysis and modelling to inform government policy investment, and financial modelling to inform organizational staffing and service delivery models.

  • Other projects included development of strategy and policy recommendations based on legislation reviews, stakeholder consultations, and and other research and data analysis.

Education

Bachelor of Advanced Science, Honors First Class

  • University of Sydney, 2011

  • Majors in Physics and Mathematics.

  • Honors thesis in computational particle physics.