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
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Cocktail Bartender
Bella Vista Hotel
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Bartender
The Marsden Brewery
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Bartender
The Quakers Inn
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Casual Staff
Reading Cinemas
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Sales Representative
Apex Alliance
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Sales and Shop Assistant
Surf Dive n Ski
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Private Tutor
Hills District and Broader Sydney
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Computer Science
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Engineering Major
Mechatronic
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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.