Product Engineering
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Senior Software Engineer · Brisbane, QLD, AU · UQ
Building web, mobile, cloud, and AI features that hold up in production.
I build full-stack products across web, mobile, APIs, and AWS. These days that mostly means developing and maintaining large enterprise production applications at UQ, with a practical interest in using AI where it actually helps a team move faster.
Current focus
Building and maintaining large enterprise production applications, event-driven services, AWS, and small AI workflows that are useful in day-to-day engineering.
ReactAngularTypeScriptAWSNode.jsPHPAI WorkflowsTestingPlatform Reliability
Backend & Cloud
Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, ASP.NET Core, PHP APIs, AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, DynamoDB, and infrastructure as code with CDK.
Architecture
Microservices, serverless and event-driven flows, domain-driven design, caching, CI/CD, and the less glamorous work of keeping services healthy.
AI Workflows
OpenAI, Claude, Bedrock, LangChain, RAG, function calling, MCP, agentic workflows, and small AI workflows that fit into normal engineering work.
Experience
Product work, platform work, and the handover between them.
Work across university platforms, mobile products, cloud services, and a few independent builds that still show how I think through systems.
Senior Software Engineer
The University of Queensland
Sep 2025 - Present
Developing and maintaining large enterprise production applications, event-driven services, and AWS-hosted microservices used by staff and students.
Software Developer
Simpro
Jun 2023 - Aug 2025
Built mobile features and production APIs, fixed customer-facing issues, and modernised legacy code. Also worked on AI/ML hackathon projects that won internal awards.
Junior Full Stack Engineer
Orange Digital
Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
Built web features with TypeScript, React, and Next.js, plus mobile UI with React Native and Redux. Also maintained a Strapi and WordPress CMS integrated with Stripe and SendGrid.
Selected Work
A smaller set of work worth reading.
Recent professional work comes first. Older projects stay here only where they still say something useful about how I build.
Enterprise platform
UQ Enterprise Production Applications
Large enterprise production applications for the university, including Blackboard integrations, event-driven services, AWS workloads, logging, and CI/CD work.
TypeScriptReactNode.jsASP.NET CoreAWS ECS
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Product engineering
Simpro Mobile & AI Workflows
Technician-facing mobile workflows, API sync, legacy cleanup, and LLM/RAG experiments for contextual task support.
AngularIonicPHP SlimLangChainRAG
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Independent build
zl-jspg
A browser notebook for writing Markdown and running JavaScript, built with Monaco, esbuild, IndexedDB, and published packages.
ReactReduxExpressMonacoesbuild
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Team leadership
Health Hero
Led a six-person team building a Flutter meal-planning app with nutrition reports and offline TensorFlow Lite recognition.
FlutterExpressMongoDBTensorFlow Lite
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Certifications
A few credentials behind the day-to-day work.
AWS certifications and machine learning coursework that sit alongside the hands-on engineering.
Education
Formal study from before the professional work above, at UQ and back home in China.
Master of Information Technology
The University of Queensland
Mar 2019 - Dec 2021
GPA: 6.25 / 7
Bachelor of Economics (Financial Engineering)
Changchun University of Science and Technology
Sep 2014 - Jun 2018
GPA: 3.32 / 4
Contact
Let's talk about useful software.
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