Skills

ElasticSearch
Java
MongoDB
MySQL
Perl
Python
Solr/Lucene
Tensorflow/Keras

Experience

Sep 2021 - Present
CVLibrary
https://www.cv-library.co.uk

Solr Expert for CV-Library and Resume Library, Jobs and CVs/Resumes: Develop and maintain our technical search capability

May 2010 - Sep 2021
Careerjet
https://www.careerjet.com

Develop and maintain the search engine for Careerjet Ltd, search source for 80 websites in 22 languages, including software to index raw data into the search engine and maintain/monitor associated systems.

Jun 2009 - May 2010
Pirum systems
https://www.pirum.com

Senior Perl developer developing a new system for confidential financial data entering our systems, and customer support providing maintenance of existing software.

Aug 2004 - Jun 2009
Trinity Mirror Digital Recruitment
https://www.tmdr.com

Senior Search Developer: Solr Development. Incorporating our Lucene enhancements into Solr, an open source Lucene search engine. CSS Recode project. (CSS2,HTML4.01).Online Purchasing with WorldPay.Mass Data migration.£7Million project to migrate Users,CVs, Job and Clients from http://www.workthing.com into our network of sites, used the HotPost system I developed

Jul 2002 - Aug 2004
Kings College London
https://www.kcl.ac.uk

Second level support for the college website, as well as development projects e.g. College policies search engine a chat server for graduate and prospective students and streaming server.

Sep 2001 - Mar 2002
CWA New Media, Wellington New Zealand
http://www.cwa.co.nz/

Contract developer working on the TKI Education portal for the Dept. of Education in New Zealand

May 2000 - Jul 2001
MediaSurface Ltd

Perl Developer working the MediaSurface CMS.

Dec 1998 - May 2000
Telstra Bigpond Ltd
https://www.telstra.com.au/

Perl Developer working with the national communications provider

Selected Projects

Sponsored Search
https://bit.ly/2T9fbZL

Rewritten Careerjet Cost-Per-Click search implementation making it faster and more accurate using the solr RankQuery</a>

MonSolr
https://bit.ly/3lYRjV6

Highly configurable MongoDB to Solr sync system to copy existing and dynamic data (via changestreams from Mongo to Solr

Spatial Search
https://bit.ly/31lXXNr

Faster than haversine, nvector spatial filter using custom tailor/ maclaulin series approximation for acos.

Artificial Intelligence
https://bit.ly/2T8cIyy

Learn and make use of TF (keras) models with TF Serving and docker to identify vehicle orientation, and Image location for Realestate.

Education

University of Technology Sydney
https://www.uts.edu.au/

B.E. (Computer Systems) First class honours

Model Farms (H.S.C)
https://bit.ly/35dENtX

Maths 3U(90%),2U(98%), Chem(78%), Phy(72%)

Model Farms (School Cert)
https://bit.ly/35dENtX

Maths Advanced, Grade A. English Grade 1.

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