About Me

I am a self-taught programmer and avid contributor to the open-source community. I originally started out studying Mechanical Engineering, but after 3 years of a 4 year degree found it wasn’t for me and took advantage of a Software Engineering job offer (gained thanks to my work in the software community and involvement in the Curtin Motorsport Team) to change career path.

I still enjoy learning about how the world works and leveraging my engineering knowledge wherever I can, whether that is in the geometry and calculus required to write a CAD/CAM program at work, or using the equations of motion and control theory to simulate a motion controller.

In my spare time I like to learn more about computer science, in particular embedded systems, high performance applications (e.g. games), and compilers. It’s not uncommon for me to explore a particular niche over a weekend then write an in-depth article about what I’ve learned (e.g. Audio Processing, embedding a WebAssembly runtime, or Rust’s Const-Generics).

My top 4 favourite programming languages at the moment:

  1. Rust
  2. Go
  3. C#
  4. TypeScript

Some projects I’ve been involved in:

  • mdbook - a program for compiling a set of Markdown files into a website which can be viewed online. I was the maintainer from November 2017 to January 2019
  • The Rust FFI Guide - A tutorial which teaches people how to interoperate between Rustand other languages via C APIs
  • gcode-rs - A crate for parsing g-code programs without allocations, primarily designed for embedded devices
  • libsignal-protocol-rs - An idiomatic Rust wrapper around the libsignal-protocol-c library, the canonical implementation of the Signal Protocol (the crypto library underneath WhatsApp and Signal)

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You can look me up on GitHub or GitLab to see examples of my work. To get a feel for my involvement in the software community you may want to look me up on the Rust User Forums or Reddit.

If you want a more formal view, check out my resume. The entire repository is publicly available, and uses GitLab’s CI system to automatically re-compile the PDF whenever new changes are pushed to master.