Jack Robinson

Full-stack Software Engineer and Team Lead

Experience

2024-Present

Lowiro

(2024-Present) Server Engineer

Lowiro is a game developer based in London and Tokyo. My job involves the development and maintenance of full-stack features and services in support of their flagship game, Arcaea.

Skills: Typescript / Vue, NodeJS, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Linux Sysadmin.

2018-2023

Montoux

(2018-2020) Software Engineer

(2020-2021) Senior Software Engineer

(2021-2023) Platform Development Lead

Montoux builds Actuarial Automation software, improving the workflow for life insurance actuaries. My job involved the full stack, from maintaining and implementing new features on various cloud infrastructure, through to architecting our new frontend client.

Skills: Clojure, Typescript / React, NodeJS, AWS, Terraform, Python, Linux Sysadmin, API and Service Design, Functional Programming, People Management, Product Management.

2014-2018

Xero

(2014-2017) Developer Intern

(2018-2018) Graduate Developer

Xero provides a Cloud-based Accounting service. Worked on projects such as understanding the code health of a legacy monolith, tools to automate a cumbersome deployment process, and analysing user data to better understand product directions.

Skills: C#, ASP.NET, Powershell, NodeJS, React, Python, Terraform, AWS.

Education

2013-2017

Victoria University of Wellington

Bachelor of Engineering (First-class Honours) in Software Engineering

My honours project was the development of a Web-based System for traffic management plans. This project allowed contractors to define to-code plans via a map interface, and generate the required paperwork for permits. Winner of the 2017 Ray Meyer Medal for Excellence in Student Design

Links

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Writing

04/12/2023

How to dump your PSX Games (for Mac)

Short post on how to get your games onto your computer

31/10/2023

Generating Islands with Love and Box2d

Abusing a high powered physics simulation to do something naughty

11/09/2023

Parsing PSX TIM Images with Typescript

Dabbling in some reverse engineering tooling

10/08/2023

Hooking up my World of Warcraft healthbar to my Keychron V1

In which I get a fancy new RGB keyboard, and explore how to make it glow real nice like