Software Engineer
Elixir Specialist
# What I do [:problems, :opportunities] |> understand_deeply() |> solve_elegantly() |> ship_reliably() |> document_clearly()
Exploring Vannevar Bush's original memex concept and my journey to build a TiddlyWiki-inspired personal knowledge system in Elixir. The UI is built with Scenic and will eventually become part of Flamelex, my larger text editor project.
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Software Engineer, passionate about pragmatism
Australian expat in Texas. Dog dad to two hounds.
Austin, TX
Building scalable web applications since 2015 across diverse tech stacks. Proficient in backend services and intuitive frontends. Roots in functional programming, adaptable to many languages. Currently at Pepsi eCommerce on supply chain systems; previously at Dubber building AI speech-to-text processing millions of files daily.
Flamelex - Emacs clone in Elixir/Scenic with memex implementation.
Scenic - Core contributions to the native Elixir GUI library.
B.S. Computer Science, Double Major in Electronic Engineering & Communications. Graduated 2013 with High Honors.
Thesis: Swarm-intelligence algorithms for autonomous mining vehicles
Initiative Lead / Senior Software Engineer
Pepsico Beverages
November 2022 - Present
Back-end systems handling 3rd party APIs. Large ETL pipelines for supply chain. K-means anomaly detection. Built in-house supply chain expert bot using LangChain.
Senior Software Engineer (AI Infrastructure)
Dubber
March 2018 - November 2022
Wrote, maintained, deployed Elixir applications responsible for transcribing millions of phone calls & meetings a day. Deployed to multiple clouds with monitoring and uptime support.
Senior Developer
1Scope
March 2017 - March 2018
Developed a React web-app that found jobs for high schoolers.
Co-founder / Senior Engineer
SkyGrid
July 2015 - March 2017
Wrote an IoT protocol exchange server, as well as device manager, in Erlang, for integrating devices & telcos.
RF & Communications Engineer - Graduate Program
Ericsson
November 2013 - July 2015
RF & Network design. Software engineer (Erlang, Java). 4G Integration specialist, distributed systems architectures.