Last Yard Full Stack Software Engineer

Last Yard builds software solutions for the largest retailers in Australia and around the world. Joined the Product Team's future-facing R&D squad, owning development of a new PDF/image rendering engine and an accompanying user-facing design tool.

NodeJS Microservices (TypeScript)

• Rearchitected a Node.js microservice to process jobs in parallel across multiple workers, cutting average job time from over 5 minutes to under 1 minute.
• Delivered day-to-day improvements across the microservices layer, maintaining reliability and throughput.

React / Redux / TypeScript Frontend

• Championed test coverage and test framework improvements across the frontend codebase.
• Upgraded a high-traffic legacy frontend component with only one defect raised post-release.
• Maintained and extended a canvas-based SPA written in React.

Django (Python)

• Built and maintained new APIs serving the frontend.
• Optimised ORM usage and general API performance.

Docker (Swarm) and Ansible

• Led migration of the development environment to Docker.
• Automated local dev environment setup with Ansible.
• Generated microservice deployment config files for use with Ansible.
• Covered on-call rotations for production outages, resolving infrastructure incidents independently.

Achievements

• Architected and delivered a high-throughput, high-reliability IoT-based retail solution.
• Supported sales activities in a demo and pilot valued at over $10,000 MRR.
• Increased render performance from roughly 30 templates per minute to over 2,000 templates in under a second.