Emelia

Working with the non-profit's board as an advisor, with a focus on technical implementation and review. IFTAS focuses on improving trust and safety across independent and federated social media.

Designed and lead development of the IFTAS CCS project for content classification for the fediverse, detecting and alerting when CSAM is posted to enrolled instances. Worked with Node.js, Adonis.js, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

Developing tooling, platforms, and patterns to empower developers at Yara Digital Labs to build great products. Primarily working with Node.js and React.

Working with Apache Kafka to develop applications on the Kappa Architecture using Node.js, TypeScript, and React.

Helped maintain & develop Ruby on Rails backends, assisted with frontend development, mentored colleagues & helped write GitLab CI configurations

Helped develop the Cloudflare Workers based proxy to allow them to go from Wordpress to React. Also worked a bit on E-commerce with CommerceTools

Consulting Tech Lead, working with them to build our their initial development team and tech stack.

Refactoring legacy code to react.

Unfortunately not the Data Engineering we'd expect, but instead lead the effort to clean up their mess of a Redux, Sagas, and React Native Application.

You may have recently been told about a new technology called GraphQL, so now you're wanting to learn more with professional training for yourself or your team. Book a training session, and I'll teach you about GraphQL & how to make use of it for you and your team.

Researched & improved node.js performance metrics using flamegraphs, mongodb optimisations and statsd/graphite. Also participated heavily in architecture discussions for future projects, and actively reviewed code helping the development team produce higher quality code.

Lead the development of their frontend architecture, developing patterns for Redux that back their Web player. These patterns are still in use today, four years later. Later moved on to rearchitecting their backend into a series of services, each responsible for distinct datasets. Used Ruby & SQL to write an ETL to move data from PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch. Also helped implement the CDN architecture, and teach the managing director how to use BI tools like Periscope.

In 2010, the studio was shut down to focus on working at various startups. Fast forward four years, the studio relaunched. For the following two years, we partnered with startups, accelerating their grow and product development. Some of our clients include Motivii Limited, Driftrock Marketing, and Resin.io

Working with Eamon (the CEO) and his team, Emelia helped them launch their initial offering by building out the backend of their application. She took a lead role in designing the user experience of the onboarding journey for web. Development was Ruby on Rails, DynamoDB, and Complex Event Processing (used for big data and analytics processing).

Development and deployment of user-facing website, metadata API, and content management system. Also involved improving network, studio and streaming infrastructure.

Lead Developer on the Driftrock Elements product, which has since been rebranded as one of Driftrock's core product offering as Driftrock Triggers. The product helps marketing team trigger ads at highly relevant times, increasing return on investment of advertising spending. The product was in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, JavaScript (React/Backbone.js), and a custom user query engine.

Worked on User Experience and User Interactions, designing new features. Also worked on improving the code quality of an ageing and complex codebase built with Backbone.js and Django, written in JavaScript and Python.

Developing the initial generation of web infrastructure and user platform services using Node.js, Amazon Web Services, and various database technologies. This infrastructure needed to be developed to be highly scalable from the start, as we already had a large consumer market share. Kano produces a platform and product to encourage people to learn about computers and how they work.

A platform for developing and delivering Internet of Things and Connected Computing products and services. Hired to work on the initial marketing and developer outreach strategy, given her vast experience contributing to open-source, giving technical presentations, and handling developer relations. (I worked for their predecessor Resin.io)

State is building an opinion network for the world, a town square to share opinions. I worked as a front-end developer for them, working with their custom front-end framework, Eyebrow.js (similar to Ember, Meteor and Angular). This was built on Dojo Toolkit and Node.js; Other roles included building HTML emails and working heavily with Mailchimp.

Maintained and scaled Realtime Web Infrastructure, as part of her work, Emelia was required to attend various conferences and handle some developer relations. As the team at Pusher was small at the time, Emelia was also on-call for handling outages and uptime.

Worked on data mining from social media and natural language processing with Node.js. Responsible for hiring and growing their team for developing Node.js.

Worked with a variety of clients on a variety of projects, mainly website builds and open-source integrations.

Worked with a German team building developer tools & prototypes with Dojo Toolkit.

Emelia was one of the senior frontend engineers, working remotely from Australia with this predominantly US based team was a highly formative experience, and she gave vast insight into how to manage and work within distributed teams, and communicate technical ideas. She worked on build a complete rich JavaScript and CSS framework to accelerate product development.