About Me
I started out in development by modding games, became somewhat obsessed with automated testing and have a wealth of experience in building 3D worlds & services across multiple platforms.
Over the last decade, I've worked in diverse areas including:
Automated testing
C++/gtest, Python/pytest, C#/NUnit, Java/JUnit/Spring Boot, Ruby/RSpec, Postman/Bruno
I'm also experienced in testing microservices, integration testing, building/customising frameworks for specific use-cases etc.
Cross-platform desktop/web/mobile clients
C, C++ plus bindings in various languages (e.g. ObjC for iOS, Java/JNI for Android, JavaScript for WebGL)
Generation of large-scale 3D worlds from GIS data
Full resource build from raw GIS data. AWS EMR, Python with GDAL, C#, visualisation with QGIS
Spatial partitioning & resource streaming
Morton ordering, Level of Detail (LOD) generation, binary-packed resources. Python, C#, C++, AWS S3 & Cloudfront
Analytics pipelines and reporting
Took an old AWS Data Pipeline solution and modernised it. Hadoop, Pig, Redash, AWS EMR, Redshift
Deploying, running and monitoring web services
Ruby, Docker, Packer, Heroku, Server Density, AWS EC2
Developer support & documentation
HTML, CSS, Jekyll
(though as you can tell from this marvel of a website, I'm not exactly Mr. CSS Zen Garden)
Skills
For the full picture, please download my CV
Programming Languages
Python, C#, C++, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, Go, Bash & Windows Batch / PowerShell.
Cloud Platforms
Primarily AWS. Also a bit of Azure (as a treat).
Operating Systems / Dev Platforms
Windows, MacOS, Linux (mostly Ubuntu & Amazon Linux). I'm also familiar with Docker and have developed for iOS, Android & WebGL
Links
Projects
Overwatch Survey
A survey for the players of /r/cow to gather opinions on the state of the game. The survey was implemented using Google Forms, then processed using Python & Pandas along with Jupyter Notebook.
Deferred Shading Dissertation
While this is an archaic university project from ~2006, it still gets a fair amount of downloads, so I'm keeping it up.
