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💼 work history - nicnonac _□×

work

the cv, more or less. for the video side of things, that's work with me.

where i've worked

software engineer

allexive ♦ mar 2026 - present ♦ auckland, nz

sole engineer across multiple products, working directly with the co-founder: a pre-launch ai marketing saas built end to end, and an seo marketing assistant bot, shipped for some of the largest customers in nz.
own the whole stack: next.js/typescript, infra across gcp, azure and aws, betterauth, drizzle orm, google ai endpoints, and the claude sdk.
meet with google engineers on scaling and infrastructure design. claude code agentic workflows throughout.

backend software intern

atlassian ♦ nov 2025 - feb 2026 ♦ sydney, au

built a new L7 routing strategy in golang with envoy proxy sidecars, optimising tenanted microservice onboarding. estimated $2m+ saved in staff and operating costs, adopted across 1,000+ internal services.
designed routing logic across tenanted archetypes, latency fallback, and header manipulation at the service mesh layer.
scrum mastered an agile team of 13 senior and principal engineers.
coming back as a graduate software engineer in feb 2027.

intern / software developer

myuniclub ♦ 2025 - present ♦ auckland, nz

full-stack features for a student club discovery platform. laravel/php backend, react and react native frontend.

the university of auckland

be (hons), software engineering ♦ 2023 - 2026

final year. graduating november 2026.
honours research: comparing prompt engineering against fine-tuning for llm sentiment analysis of s&p 500 earnings calls (25k+ transcripts, 500m+ words), benchmarking frontier llms against fine-tuned gemma 3 and dictionary baselines.

@nicnonac

instagram, youtube ♦ 2025 - present

13.3k followers on instagram making educational ai and dev tool content. paid brand work including base44, with more in progress.
the site you're on right now. hand-coded, obviously.

languages:

golangpythontypescriptjavascriptjavaphpc/c++bash

frameworks & tools:

next.jsreactnode.jslaraveldrizzle ormbetterauthenvoytailwindmongodbgit

cloud & ai:

gcpazureawsgoogle ai endpointsclaude codeclaude sdk