About

👋 Welcome to my little corner of the internet

I'm an 🇦🇺 Australian who enjoys gaming and all things tech.

I'm married to a wonderful woman named Alexandra and we have a 😸 fluff butt named Ambrosia. Also a ✝️ believing Anglican, a few favourite verses are Isaiah 40:30-31 (opens in a new tab) and Matthew 9:12-13 (opens in a new tab).

From studying Ancient History for my undergrad degree after high school, I luckily stumbled into the world of working in tech.

👨‍💻 Work

A mate from church referred me for a contractor position in the recruiting team at Atlassian. After a few years – focused mostly on grad and intern recruiting – I made the switch to working in the R&D side of the business building software.

I'm currently working as a Software Engineering Manager at Atlassian on our new "Teamwork Directory" product called 🌐 Atlas (opens in a new tab) - I think it's pretty neat. Check it out 👀

https://www.atlassian.com/loop/about (opens in a new tab) is another great resource if wanting to adopt Atlas at your company.

📚 Learning

If you're interested in starting a career in the technology industry check out the Resource Library I've put together.

A major factor in making my career change successful was the wealth of high quality resources available online.

Second only to the friends and family who supported me along the way.

📝 Creative Writing

Follow along with the story of Terra Futurum

🕹 Gaming

I'm currently playing:

Video Games

• ⚔️ Valheim (opens in a new tab)
  • Viking survival, gathering, crafting co-op fun times
• 🪖 Company of Heroes 2 (opens in a new tab)
  • WW2 RTS
• 🪐 Outer Wilds (opens in a new tab)
  • Gyroscopic controls, time loops and space
• 💀 Boneraiser Minions (opens in a new tab)
  • Vampire Survivors 2.0 feat. more interactivity
• 🪦 Graveyard Keeper (opens in a new tab)
  • Don't worry about where the meat comes from
• ⛧ Diablo IV (opens in a new tab)
  • Soon™
• ⚙️ Hearthstone Battlegrounds (opens in a new tab)
  • Spiritual successor to Dota Auto Chess (🪦 Underlords)
• 🪖 Hell Let Loose (opens in a new tab)
  • WW2 FPS
• ⌨️ Dota 2 (opens in a new tab)
  • Multiplayer Online Battle Arena ⚔️ Guaranteed to have a good bad time
• 🔫 Counter Strike (opens in a new tab)
  • CS2 waiting room

Tabletop

• 🦁 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion (opens in a new tab)
  • The best introduction to a D&D style game where the board game is the Dungeon Master (opens in a new tab)
• 👽 Terraforming Mars (opens in a new tab)
  • A combination of Euro games economic optimisations with US style PvP strategy
• 🃏 500 (opens in a new tab)
  • Classic trick taking card game
• 🐲 Dungeons & Dragons (opens in a new tab)
  • El Classico Tabletop