I am a software developer residing in Melbourne, Australia. Here are some of the public projects I've worked on recently:
EventBot is a service I created that allows users to create Google Calendar events by sending an email to their own personal EventBot address. Written in Python & deployed on Google App Engine. Despite only having ~40 unique users per day, I've learned a lot about scalability by using the loosely-coupled architecture that App Engine encourages. I've also used EventBot as an opportunity to hone my skills at zero-friction testing and deployment.
Directory site for the largest Internet Yellow Pages company in the Netherlands, with over 6.9 million monthly unique visitors. With colleagues at Local Matters, I implemented cross-browser UI for everything from basic pages to interactive Javascript maps. I also worked closely with the operations team to debug and resolve production issues, and took the lead in implementing performance improvements, including request optimization and Varnish caching, to greatly reduce hardware requirements and speed up the site for end users.