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Resume

Here's what I've done so far 😄

Jan 3, 2023 - 3 minute read

Professional Career

IDE Group

Medical Device Engineering Intern

November 2023 - February 2024

  • Conducted a finite element analysis study for a medical device component which resulted in changes to a jig design
  • Implemented a formal technical design review template as part of the QMS
  • Ran tests, gathered and analysed data to determine root causes of fluid loss in a mechanical system as part of an RCA investigation. This informed several design changes for the next device revision.
  • Used basic machinery such as 3D printers and power/hand tools to create prototype/jig components for testing
  • Developed advanced CAD skills such as surfacing, sketching with equations and multi-body parts.

WiseTech Global

Software Engineer

February 2022 - September 2023

  • Halved CPU inference time with minimal loss of accuracy which helped my team to offload an LLM for CPU usage.
  • Predicted air pollutant emissions from cargo ship movement data within specified error tolerance to help investigate sustainability metrics.
  • Implemented and tested functionality to recognise header/footer elements in PDF documents for an ETL
  • Conducted several data analyses to help product teams make informed decisions to solve their problems.
  • Mentored over 30 students participating in WiseTech’s Earn and Learn Program by providing programming assistance, running workshops and working with other teams to develop a strong curriculum

Associate Software Developer (Intern)

November 2021 - February 2022

  • Developed an automated parquet file anomaly detection tool which flagged .parquet files that were likely no longer required by services used within the team.

  • Produced a logging application with a Kibana dashboard interface to aid team members with a visual overview of detected anomalous files


Sydney Computing Society (SYNCS)

Undergraduate Representative

September 2023 - May 2024

  • Ran a weekly programming helpdesk for units such as DSA where I taught fundamental concepts to help students achieve academic success.
  • Reached out to fellow members of the student community to encourage society growth and relay suggestions/advice for improvement of undergraduate events

Industry Liaison

September 2022 - September 2023

  • Lead organiser for sponsorships and several on-campus events with over 200 attendees including sponsor activities, industry networking nights and mock interview events.

Industry Subcommittee

  • Developed skills in negotiating with sponsors and planning events
  • Promoted several industry and social events to the university community
  • Assisted in the running of several events

Additional Experiences

Coding Fest Contestant @ University of Sydney

March 2023 - July 2023

  • Collaboratively architected an elegant solution which provided users with a production grade web application for chord recognition

  • Used FFT to extract chromagram features from audio files to train a chord classification model with scikit-learn

  • Producing a working REST API Endpoint with AWS Lambda, API Gateway and Docker through the use of AWS SAM

  • Sustainable Undergraduate Junior Project Award Champion 2023


Team Leader @ EWH Design Competition

August 2022 - May 2023

  • Led a team of engineering students to design, prototype and pitch a wearable medical device for simultaneous and instantaneous reporting of neonatal vitals.

  • Devised and allocated action items across all required system components, organized check-ins with my team members, assisted peers with troubleshooting and communicated with academic/healthcare representatives to understand the needs of the problem/solution

  • Developed user interface prototypes that displayed telemetry from multiple devices to easily highlight at-risk neonates for potential nursing staff

  • Wrote software for an Arduino-based electronic control system and documented its final design, including circuit diagrams, battery-life considerations and manufacturing considerations

  • Placed 2nd within our university tournament and went on to represent The University of Sydney for the international competition against other universities