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The path · June 2000 → now
It was always about the people.
From a young Flash developer walking into the big IT world, through the dot-com bust, across two countries — one good team at a time. Walk it with Bitty: collect the skills, meet the people, watch him grow up.
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- 22 June 2000 – 2005 — A kid walks into the big IT world.
Day one in the industry, as a Flash developer. Then came the 2001–02 dot-com bust — so he learned everything he could to survive it: from Flash to .NET, C and C++ on BREW for early mobile phones, plus ASP and JSP for the web. When the industry shrank, he grew. - Mar 2005 – May 2008 — The J2EE crew, and the day jQuery arrived.
Joined a J2EE crew building for a global client, and learned JavaScript end to end — the full flow. Then jQuery showed up and suddenly changed all our lives. - May 2008 – Jan 2015 — Hardcore JavaScript and a security mindset.
The longest stop — almost seven years. Went deep on hardcore JavaScript, Apache, XML and XPath, and picked up a lot of security thinking that still shapes how he builds today. - Feb 2015 – Apr 2016 — Seeing it from the client’s side.
A move into services: learning how delivery really works for clients — expectations, trust, and turning needs into architecture. On the tech side, leaning into React and GraphQL. - May 2016 – Aug 2019 — Real full-stack, and the architect’s view.
A true full-stack chapter — Angular on the front, Java on the back — with a solid understanding of the ITSM business the product served. The role grew into architecture: thinking in systems, not just features. - 2019 — A new country, a new chapter.
- Aug 2019 – Jun 2020 — First Sydney team: designing systems.
Starting over in a new country, as a Principal Engineer. Deep in system design and framework implementation — building the foundations other developers build on. - Jun 2020 – Oct 2021 — Security, and a look at blockchain.
Building through 2020–21 in the security domain, and exploring blockchain along the way — curiosity has always been part of the job. - Mar 2022 – now — Full-stack at scale.
Back to hands-on full-stack: large-scale customer-facing web apps with React, TypeScript and NestJS. Microfrontends, microservices, and a lot of cross-team collaboration to ship safely on AWS. - Now → next — Full-stack + AI: still learning, still upgrading.
Still full-stack every day at IAG — and now bringing AI into it: learning Python, RAG and how to take AI from prototype to production. The same kid who learned Flash in 2000 is upgrading again. Plus side projects like apibird, and videos for GameGeek and AusiDesi. The path keeps going, and the best part is still who walks it with you.