techiturn

Dear world, I am officially job-hunting!

Well, I don’t think this is the done thing, but where can one self-promote if not on one’s own blog. And I am relying on my networks to throw up interesting possibilities that don’t tend to rank high on SEEK. :)

So: I’m looking for a full-time software/web development position in inner Melbourne.

I’m a professional cross-disciplinarian: early-career computational linguist, software developer and hobby open source geek, organiser and speaker. I’m particularly interested in web-based development, agile development and development using high-level languages like Python. I’m particularly experienced in Prolog-based machine translation development, and have some experience in Python, PHP, C, .NET/C#. You wouldn’t hire me because I ticked a box that says “X years of technology Y” (unless Y==Prolog), but rather because I have an excellent analytical mind, an aptitude for new technologies, a deep interest in the field and a broad set of other generically useful skills like communication, documentation and team work.

What I’d like:

• I would love to work with natural language data, but I suspect those gigs are hard to come by here.
• With or without that, I want a job with ongoing challenges or problem-solving required. (And not challenges like, “Well, we don’t have unit tests, so have fun figuring out what this bug is.”)
• I want a workplace that supports learning (in particular, I would like to work & learn under someone with a decent amount more experience than I) and management that recognises initiative.
• I would prefer to work in a high-level language (because I think that they enable more rapid development, and leave more time for solving the interesting parts of problems), but I could live with good-practices-practiced in PHP or .NET or maybe C++.

So if you know of an interesting workplace looking to hire, please let me know. Comments below or email me at brianna@laugher.id.au. Oh and there is some more specifics about what I’ve done on LinkedIn. Thanks!