About

I am a software engineer currently living in NYC.

Originally from Liverpool, England, however, grew up in Perth, Australia. I have a great passion for technology.

Things I’m working on right now

Modernization and moving to the cloud

Kubernetes / Istio / Helm
Managed services

Automation

Infrastructure and configuration as code e.g. Terraform, Packer, Docker
CI/CD pipelines - blue, green deployments
IT operations
Quality assurance

Team and people management

Currently managing a great team, highly motivated and exceeding all expectations

Core skills

.NET

Deep familiarity with the entire ecosystem from the hosting platforms, web frameworks, ORM libraries, core libraries, windows services, package management and everything that makes .NET applications around the world tick

Python

Understand end-to-end delivery of a commercial Python application

APIs

To do my job I have always needed to have a deep understanding of how the API technology at the time worked. I have created/consumed/debugged APIs with the following technologies SOAP, REST and gRPC.

CI/CD pipelines

Reliably deploying any application or configuration change is essential to keeping a sane lab. I have set up entire CI/CD pipelines for organizations.

Application reliability, hosting and monitoring

Ownership of an application after it goes live is incredibly important. To try to keep on top of this I have set up dashboards and monitoring with business-friendly metrics for production systems.

Relational databases

Throughout my career, I have utilized Microsoft SQL Server

Non-relational document databases

Comfortable with using document-based databases such as MongoDB

Other skills

NodeJS
Search APIs e.g. Solr and ElasticSearch

Other hobbies

Mountain biking
Travel

I am a software engineer currently living in NYC.

Things I’m working on right now

Modernization and moving to the cloud

Automation

Team and people management

Core skills

.NET

Python

APIs

CI/CD pipelines

Application reliability, hosting and monitoring

Relational databases

Non-relational document databases

Other skills

Other hobbies

Find the number of non-contiguous islands in a 2d matrix world

Using recursion and depth-first search to find all islands in a given 2d matrix world

Find the median in a data stream

Adding incoming data in a way that it's optimized to always knowing the median

First missing positive

Find the first missing positive integer in an array in O(array_length) time from LeetCode

Median of two arrays

Getting the median of two sorted arrays in O(log(small_array_length)).

Merge k sorted linked lists

Disseminating the "merge k sorted linked lists" problem from Leetcode.com.

Setup Isso comments on your website today

This guide goes through everything you need to get the open source commenting software Isso running on your website for completely free with Google Cloud.

ZigZag conversion algorithm

A dive into the ZigZag letter conversion on Leetcode.com. Letters initially are written in a zig-zag formation and must be read back from left to right.

Cherry pickup algorithm

An in-depth look at the Cherry Pickup problem on Leetcode.com.

Autocomplete with static files [4/4] - Implementing autocomplete with generated static files

At this stage, we should have already have generated our 'data source' of autocomplete JSON files. We can now finally implement a working text box with autocomplete functionality, which consumes these files.

Autocomplete with static files [3/4] - Building an autocomplete static file generator

In this post we will be implementing an autocomplete static file generator, using the principles, learned in the past two articles in this series. Also within this post is a working demo which produces static autocomplete JSON files for a CSV.

Autocomplete with static files [2/4] - Visualization of words in a Trie

An interactive visualization of how to implement autocomplete without a backend server, using only static files. This post will help with understanding the underpinnings of autocomplete using a Trie data structure.

Autocomplete with static files [1/4] - Introduction

An introduction to static files and the benefits of generating static files for your autocomplete implementation.

Representing numbers, using sticks and stones.

NHibernate QueryOver examples using the C# library

QueryOver is a powerful wrapper for the NHibernate ORM Criteria API. It is type-safe with a familiar syntax to Lambda expressions and LINQ. This post covers a nice range of real-world usage examples.

Creating an Android app, with a large offline database (over 4GB)

Today we will be covering large SQLite databases with the Android PhoneGap framework. We will be going over the challenges and opportunities of running offline Android apps with scale.

Linking in-text citations to numbered references on a page

In this post, we will be adding a usability feature by adding hover functionality to citations. When hovering over a citation, we will show the corresponding reference text. In this example, we are dealing with unstructured HTML and using a set of business rules to link the citations to references.