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Hi, I'm Andrew

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I am a full-stack software engineer from Sydney Australia.

I enjoy building innovative solutions to challenging problems.

About me

My love for programming came a few years ago when I felt unchallenged and unfulfilled at my job. I decided to do a degree in computer science to further my interest in software development. This career change has since opened up a world of exciting opportunities for me and has been what I have lived and breathed since.

I currently work as a full-stack engineer. To improve my skills, I like to build side projects to expose myself to as many new concepts as possible, do online tutorials or write about my programming experiences on my personal blog.

When I am not developing software, I enjoy spending time with my family, watching sports and doing physical exercise. I believe a balanced life outside of work is important for mental health and is imperative to sustain a long career in software development.

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Projects

Mirotone React

Mirotone React is a component library for the Mirotone Design System, offering a range of components and utilities to speed up development for Miro. It draws inspiration from Mirotone CSS and Miro UI Components.

Space Manager for Confluence

Space Manager for Confluence gives you a visual overview of your Confluence page structures and how they relate to each other. It simplifies navigation, making it easier for users to understand and collaborate within their Confluence spaces. Space Manager for Confluence originated as a university project in collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney through its Software Development Studio program, evolving into a commercial product now accessible on the Atlassian marketplace.

Dindr

Dindr is a social food discovery application designed to identify commonly favoured restaurants among friends. It assists users in discovering the finest cuisines within a specified location, enabling them to express their interest in restaurants by swiping left or right. Users are then presented with shared restaurant preferences, facilitating groups in refining their selection of dining options.

Blog

JavaScript Memoization

March 27, 2024 • 4 min read

Last week at work, we implemented a caching mechanism for Chargebee API calls so that we could avoid API restrictions with Chargebee. This meant that we could memorize the result of an API call in our persistent store.

Parallelism VS Concurrency

March 24, 2024 • 3 min read

With JavaScript being a single-threaded language, it never occurred to me how limiting this fundamental flaw was until I kept hearing about how advantageous languages such as Java, Rust and Go handled concurrency. To me, firing off multiple promises in JavaScript was good enough. Not until I experienced limitations around synchronous blocking code in React and how it affected the user's experience. This is when I started to explore why a single-threaded language simply cannot handle parallel processing well.

A Calculator Built with Function Chaining

October 4, 2023 • 5 min read

The motivation to implement a calculator using function chaining is to demonstrate how this pattern can improve code readability and can logically process actions from left to right. Here is a simple example of how some calculations are implemented with the use of pure functions:

Get in touch

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