Jason Snelders - Resume

Senior Full Stack Software Developer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Last Updated: 21 February 2025


About

  • Full-time, full-stack analyst/software developer.
  • Part-time technical co-founder in a bootstrapped SaaS business on the size (15-20 hours/weeks).
  • Started teaching myself coding in 1997.
  • Professional developer for nearly 25 years.
  • Over my career I have worked in a diverse range of roles, environments, and projects:
    Full-stack software developer, front-end web developer, data analyst, A/B test integration developer, DevOps engineer, team lead, tutor, manager, self-employed small-business owner.
  • My secret to sustaining the pace is good sleep, resistance training 4x per week, 10K steps every day and 2-3 good holidays every year to reset and recharge.
  • I don't do software development for "fun". I do it for the accomplishment of creating products people use and receive value from.
  • I abhor it when developers use "laziness" as an excuse for not liking or doing something.
  • I believe in code comments, documentation, and systematising anything that needs to be repeated.
  • I'm happy do all the boring and mundane jobs that other engineers and technicians don't want - documentation, testing, business analysis, data analysis, talking to people, asking questions - you name it.
  • Just don't ask me to build anything in React or AWS.

Experience

Senior Software Developer

Compass Education [full-time]
February 2021 - Present
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Full-stack web application software developer.

  • Part of a team dedicated to consulting directly with a specific large customer.
  • The only team required to work across the entire platform, requiring close collaboration with other teams that own individual modules.
  • Directly involved in customer meetings, planning, scoping, specification writing, solution design, and product demos.
  • Wearing the hats of: front-end web developer (React/ExtJS), back-end developer (C#/SQL Server/MongoDB), functional tester, software architect, and business analyst.
  • Writing extensive technical requirements/specification and performing business requirements analysis in larger projects.
  • Working on projects and delivery ranging from days to over 12 months, often concurrently.
  • Working both collaboratively and autonomously.
  • An advocate of documentation, I re-invigorated the developer documentation by creating dozens of process and technical articles in the company wiki after joining.
  • Providing support to team members and the wider development department wherever possible.
  • Learnt a few new tricks in C#. Learnt React 18. Working with TypeScript. Muddling through GraphQL.

Skills

  • C#
  • JavaScript
  • React.js
  • .NET Framework
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Software Documentation
  • Business Analysis
  • Technical Solution Design
  • MongoDB

Technical Co-founder

Lotus AI [part-time]
May 2020 - Present
Victoria, Australia · Remote

Lotus' core product is automated time tracking and timesheet generation.

  • Founded in May 2020, I have continued to develop the platform outside of a full-time job since February 2021.
  • Designed and built a complete SaaS product platform. Separate API back-end (.NET, Azure App Service & Azure SQL) and web front-end (Vue.js, Netlify).
  • Setup automated CI/CD with GitHub Actions for Azure deployments (Azure App Service) with multiple test and production environments in Azure and Netlify.
  • Created a background monitoring agent for Windows (WPF) to gather meta data and send to the API for processing.
  • Successfully completed early stage beta testing with a team in a large accounting firm.
  • Adapted the platform to a more loosely coupled modular design to accommodate different projects with 2 partner businesses.
  • Managing the development of an iOS/Android mobile app by a remote (international) development partner.
  • Managed and mentored a graduate developer.
  • Partnered with 4 separate companies over the last 2 years to build and host other business modules. 2 were failure (flaky partnerships) and the first is a success in progress.

Skills

  • C#
  • Netlify
  • Vue.js (v2 and v3)
  • .NET Framework
  • GitHub
  • SQL Azure
  • DevOps
  • Microsoft Azure
  • .Net (5-8)
  • Project Management
RMIT University [part-time]
May 2019 - November 2019

Team Lead / Project Manager

May 2019 - January 2019
  • Recruited and managed a 3-person development team and 2 PhD researchers, for a software research project in collaboration with Mornington Peninsula Council (MPS).
  • Responsible for maintaining budget, planning, technical direction.
  • Attended weekly multi-vendor stakeholder meetings.
  • Worked closely with the primary Project Manager for MPS.

Tutor

July 2019 - November 2019
  • Ran 2 tutorial labs per week for a Database Applications course.
  • Taught Oracle databases.
  • Learnt and taught MongoDB.
  • Taught web application design fundamentals.

Team Lead / Support Project Coordinator

March 2019 - November 2019
  • Managed and coached 12 student teams across 2 semesters.
  • Provided guidance and support with weekly status meetings, and availability on Slack.

Self-employed Consultant

Principal Software Developer
January 2012 - June 2019
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • Self-employed developer and boutique consultancy owner.
  • Developed and maintained websites for small businesses, primarily with WordPress.
  • Designed and developed an internal student portal for a Melbourne University college (using WordPress).
  • Managed 2 full-time staff in India for 3 years.
  • Closed the business because due to a lack of sales experience and growth.

Skills

  • WordPress
  • PHP
  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript
  • MySQL
  • PHP
  • Web Application Development
  • WordPress

Team Lead / Senior Software Developer

Datacom [full time]
September 2016 - September 2018
Melbourne, Australia

Full-stack senior software developer. I worked on 3 projects in my time with Datacom:

  • Project 1 (Australian Unity) : Senior developer / Team lead. Developed an orchestration tool to automate the creation of EC2 dev/test environments in AWS and initiate code deployment from Octopus Deploy.
  • Project 2 (BUPA) : Operations Lead. Migrating COBOL from Unix to .NET. Development team lead. Developer support. DevOps support. Inter organisation coordinator. Migration analyst.
  • Project 3 (Red Cross): Full-stack ASP.NET developer on the Red Cross Blood Service “Organ Match” project.

Skills

  • C#
  • ASP.NET
  • Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
  • Visual Studio
  • Angular 5
  • .NET 4.6
  • NUnit/Moq
  • Micro Focus Visual COBOL
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 & CloudFormation
  • Octopus Deploy
  • TeamCity

Senior Software Developer (Web front-end)

Belong (placement via Object Consulting) [contact]
November 2014 - July 2016
Melbourne, Australia

Senior Software Developer

Object Consulting [contract]
September 2014 - October 2014
Melbourne, Australia

Software Developer

PageUp [contract]
August 2014 - September 2014
Melbourne, Australia

Software Developer

Village Roadshow [contract]
May 2024 - August 2014
Melbourne, Australia

Software Developer

Maurice Blackburn Lawyers [contract]
April 2013 - November 2013
Melbourne, Australia

Data Management Consultant

Transurban [contract]
July 2010 - July 2011
Melbourne, Australia

Software Developer

eNett International [contract]
April 2010 - June 2010
Melbourne, Australia

Software Developer

City of Melbourne [contract]
August 2009 - March 2010
Melbourne, Australia

Software Developer

Prima Consulting [full-time]
January 2008 - June 2009
Melbourne, Australia

Software Developer

ParagonIT / Paragon Systems [full-time]
March 2002 - December 2007
Melbourne, Australia

Technical Skills

These are the technologies I prefer to work with (and currently active in).

  • .NET (4.x to 8)
  • C#
  • HTML
  • CSS / SCSS
  • Vue.js (mostly v2, a bit of v3)
  • SQL Server / SQL (I still write SQL by hand)
  • Azure - Managed SQL and App Services
  • WPF

In my day job I also work with:

  • MongoDB
  • TypeScript
  • React (v18+, I think)
  • GraphQL
  • ExtJS 4.2

The technologies I will only begrudgingly work with:

  • React (what a mess)
  • TypeScript (it has it's place in the world, but I'm a vanilla JS person the overhead of TS is painful)
  • GraphQL (the tooling is a nightmare)
  • AWS (Documentation is rubbish and the trying to figure out how to work with it is a nightmare)