Lachlan Hunt

http://lachy.id.au/

+61 435 947 762

Resumé

The latest version of this resumé is available online <http://lachy.id.au/about/resume>.

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Summary

Employment History

Atlassian

Senior Developer

From October 2015 to March 2024, I worked as a senior developer for Atlassian. This role included the following responsibilities:

Project Highlights

NoriginMedia

Frontend Web Developer

From July 2013, I worked as a front end web developer for NoriginMedia (formerly AspiroTV, until September 2013). This role included the following responsibilities:

Opera Software

Core Technology Tester (Quality assurance for front-end web technologies)

From October 2007, I worked as a core technology tester and specification writer for Opera Software. This role included the following responsibilities:

Communicator Interactive

Front-End Web Developer

From the end of January to  mid-April 2007, I was employed by Communicator Interactive as an HTML developer.  This role included developing websites for both desktop and mobile environments.

In this role, I developed websites for organisations including 3m, Rexona and Brown Brothers.

Freelance/Contract Work

Front-End Web Developer

From October 2005, I worked as a freelance web developer, completing contracts for front end web development. In these roles, I was responsible for writing standards compliant HTML, CSS and JavaScript for each of the websites.

Note: In the years since this work was performed, each of the sites have since been redeveloped by other developers.

These contracts included the following organisations:

CSU Games Technology Site (2007)
Contracted by the then head of the Games Tech course at Charles Sturt University to build their internal course website for use by students.
Blue Cork (2006-12/2007-01)
Contracted by Blue Cork to build the homepage for Selectv <http://selectv.com.au/>, and again in January to build a few more pages for the site.
GetMail (2006-06/2006-07)
Built GetMail <http://getmail.com.au/>
HotHouse (2006-01/2006-05)
I was re-employed by HotHouse as a contractor to build and maintain the HTML, CSS and JavaScript for 4 new websites for their clients.
Edentiti (Since 2005-10/2006-01)
I have been employed as a contractor with Edentiti to build and maintain their new website.

HotHouse

Front-End Web Developer

I was employed at HotHouse Interactive, initially beginning as a contractor for 1 month, and then continuing for a further 3 months.  During this time, I worked on a number of projects, primarily using standards compliant HTML, CSS and DOM scripting techniques.

In this role, I created and/or worked on a number of websites including Crowne Plaza (related: blog entry), Holiday Inn, Toyota, Homehound, HCF Eyecare and Omnus. My main job was to convert the designs for these pages (Photoshop images) into markup and CSS.

The Farmshed

Front-End Web Developer

I was employed at The Farmshed as a graduate web developer. During my employment, I carried out a number of duties including:

The rebuild process for the new website utilised a number of technologies. The back end was developed using J2EE with Enterprise Java Beans (EJB). The Front end was created using JSP and the mark up was written using semantically structured and valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. All the presentation was handled using CSS, to fully separate the presentation from the content.

Web Standards Development

WHATWG (since 2005)
Contributed to the development of the next generation of HTML and related technologies.
W3C HTML Working Group (since 2007)
Contributed to the development of HTML5.
W3C Web Applications Working Group (formerly the Web API WG and WAF WG) (since 2007)
Editor of Selectors API Level 1.
Editor of Selectors API Level 2.

I first joined the W3C Working Groups as an invited expert and then continued as a representative of Opera Software throughout my employment, until subsequently resuming my invited expert status.

Publications and Presentations

Education

Charles Sturt University, Bathurst

Bachelor of Information Technology (graduated May 2004)

Topics studied include:

Akamai Database Project

As part of my IT degree, I completed a major project in a team of four people developing an object-oriented database application for the storage of images and associated data for Akamai, an artificially intelligent vision system.

Parkes High School

Completed HSC with a UAI of 75.35%

A Universities Admission Index (UAI) is a linear ranking of students based on their final year performance at high school and is used to help determine their admission to university.

Achievments