Senior Full Stack Software Developer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Last Updated: 21 February 2025
Overview
- Full-time: Analyst/software developer. Full-stack web applications. 2 decades professional experience.
- Part-time: Technical co-founder. Bootstrapped SaaS founded 2020.
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Career roles/responsibilities:
Full-stack software developer,
Front-end web developer,
Data analyst,
A/B test integration developer,
DevOps engineer,
Team lead,
Manager,
University tutor,
Self-employed small-business owner (software consultancy). - I advocate for technical documentation and systematising anything that needs to be repeated.
- I'll do the jobs that other engineers don't like: documentation, testing, business analysis, data analysis, detailed solution design, BAU/maintenance development, talking to people, customer support.
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]
April 2020 - Present
Victoria, Australia · Remote
Lotus' core product is automated time tracking and timesheet generation.
- 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 teams in 2 large accounting firms.
- Adapted the platform to a more loosely coupled modular design to accommodate different projects with partner businesses.
- Managed the development of an iOS/Android mobile app by a remote (international) development partner.
- Managed and mentored a graduate developer.
- Partnered with 5 separate companies over the last 2 years to build and host other business modules.
- Continued developing the platform outside of a full-time job since February 2021.
- Responsible for all technical requirements analysis, architecture, and business documentation.
Skills
- C#
- Netlify
- Vue.js (v2 and v3)
- .NET Framework & .NET 8 (ASP.NET MVC)
- GitHub
- SQL Azure (SQL language programming)
- DevOps
- Microsoft Azure
- .Net (5-8)
- Project Management
- Business analysis
- Technical documentation
- Software architecture
- 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 web application design fundamentals with Oracle and MongoDB database development.
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 2014 - 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 (Framework 4.x & .NET 8)
- C#
- HTML
- CSS / SCSS
- Vue.js (mostly v2, and a bit of v3)
- SQL Server / SQL (I write SQL by hand)
- Azure - Managed Azure SQL and App Services
- WPF (Windows desktop app)
I have also worked with:
- MongoDB
- TypeScript
- React (v18)
- GraphQL
- ExtJS (v4.2)