Shalvin

Experience

Left ImmersaView, and Australia, to explore Europe, the potential of living in a different place, to gain a broader perspective of the climate crisis, and to explore new career opportunities.
Relocated to Utrecht in the Netherlands and began learning the Dutch language (currently A2).

Corresponded with stakeholders, maintained a prioritized backlog of tasks, published a product roadmap and owned the product vision as a member of a cross-functional development team.
Hosted monthly stakeholder meetings to transparently communicate direction.
Collaborated with system architects to build a technically-informed architectural runway of features.
Balanced software engineering and product owner responsibilities to flexibly supplement capacity.

Developed a cross-platform suite of applications that captured, streamed, and rendered live or recorded media across networks at low latency using multiple technology stacks.
Collaborated in a cross-functional team by performing peer code reviews, sharing knowledge, and mentoring, encouraging curiosity in technology and supporting problem solving.
Contributed to a migration to GitLab to implement CI/CD automation across multiple technology stacks, including builds, tests, and deployments, resulting in faster iteration and more comprehensive testing.
Researched emerging technologies and pioneered adoption of Docker and Rust, increasing development productivity and application stability by reducing the number of memory bugs.

Led workshops for school-age students (a.k.a. Ninjas) that encouraged exploring and engaging with technology creatively in a collaborative space.
Encouraged Ninjas to share their solutions to problems, their discoveries and to assist their peers with problems.