Lucas Barbosa

Experience

Software Engineer

PwC 2022/present

  • Developer of PwC's Smart Audit Platform, a real-time collaboration platform supercharging audit workflows, enabled by 40+ microservices and cloud-based AI.
  • Involved in the end-to-end development lifecycle across APAC and US territories, from conceptualisation to deployment, ensuring the platform met the highest standards of performance, reliability, and security.
  • Author of thought-leadership whitepapers exploring new cutting-edge technology.
  • Innovated engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and culture within the organisation.

Founder

Grape 2022/present

  • Established Grape, a bespoke software development firm specialising in advanced productivity solutions for private clients.
  • Led the development of advanced web applications and backend systems laying the foundation for iterative development and scalability.
  • Applied cutting-edge domain and technical knowledge into product development, ensuring relevance and competitiveness in the fast-paced tech industry.

Lead Engineer

Progue Chartered Accountants 2021/22

  • Spearheaded automation initiatives to optimise tax accountancy workflows, leveraging innovative solutions to streamline processes and enhance efficiency, reducing non-billable hours.
  • Developed a cutting-edge web platform to revolutionise productivity applications, custom-tailored to meet business needs. Implemented advanced deployment strategies leveraging full-managed Kubernetes cloud deployment, ensuring rapid iteration and scalability.
  • Innovatively parsed XML data from hundreds of MS Word documents, transforming unstructured information into a structured and scalable model. This enabled new lightning-fast workflows to be developed on top of the firm's existing legacy data archives.

Software and Product Developer

Cercle 2021/22

  • Built a mission-critical web application on AWS infrastructure to ensure the reliability of a high-demand product launch.
  • As a product owner, conducted in-person and online user testing and QA to enhance user engagement.
  • Worked on conceptualising new ideas for future iterations of the product in a highly collaborative startup environment.

Software Developer

Freelance 2016/22

I enjoy coding in my free time! I've completed over 100 personal projects with different sizes and technologies. Some are open source on github.com/lbxa. I also regularly undertake paid contract development.

Additional Experience

2016...2021

  • Cocktail Bartender

    Bella Vista Hotel

  • Bartender

    The Marsden Brewery

  • Bartender

    The Quakers Inn

  • Casual Staff

    Reading Cinemas

  • Sales Representative

    Apex Alliance

  • Sales and Shop Assistant

    Surf Dive n Ski

  • Private Tutor

    Hills District and Broader Sydney

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Computer Science

UNSW, Sydney

  • Engineering Major

    Mechatronic

  • Computer Science Major

    Artificial Intelligence

Projects

Truthcoin

Digital Trust Blockchain

Creating a rust-based blockchain targeted at online content-trust using distributed technologies to guarantee scale.

Summer

Personal AI Assistant

  • Applies Boltzmann’s Entropy formula over multiple social signals (calendar events, to-do lists etc.) to estimate weekly and monthly levels of disorder/anxiety.
  • Uses GraphQL to collect data from multiple APIs and model them into micro-states as input to the above algorithm

Moose

Crypto HFT Algorithm

  • Fetches real-time crypto pricing data from the online exchanges with asynchronous Web sockets. Data is cleaned with Pandas.
  • Applied indicators (e.g. MACD, Vortex etc.) with other quantitative trading strategies to execute real-time market orders from a real-time server.