Before Now

I've been developing software professionally for 15+ years. Here is how I've spent the bulk of my time.

Academic Research

In 2012 I completed my studies in High Performance Computational Physics; basically a cross between Mathematical Physics and Computer Science. In my research project I worked on optimising large scale inversion problems, breaking down masivelly parallel FORTRAN code to run in parallel on Hadoop on AWS.

While moving into private industry after my four year honours degree, I continued to work on Machine Learning research projects, and guest lectured to postgrad students on the topic of Software Architecture.

EyeSpace®

In 2012 I co-founded medical device manufacturing company EyeSpace, creating software to design and manufacture contact lenses with state-of-the-art numerical simulation and manufacturing techniques.

As Managing Director and then Chief Technology Officer, I grew the company and led our team of developers building secure and maintainable software to facilitate the work of our manufacturers and doctors around the world.

You can read more about the product at www.eye.space. Here are some of the technologies we used:

I also worked with the author of Contact Lenses, 6th Edition to develop an educational web app to accompany the textbook release.

textbookapp

AI, Machine Learning, and Evolutionary Computing

The large and interesting data-sets we were working with at EyeSpace® led me to explore modern computing techniques for both exploratory data analysis and inferential modelling. Internally and with external collaborators at the University of Adelaide.

From analysing corneal data to extrapolate corneal height, through to LLM based analysis of clinical notes.