W.
Johnston
Things I do:make things
Things I've done:↯
- Researched new navigation technology
- Built a novel proof of concept for AR indoor navigation
- Pitched to customers, resulting in concrete leads for cloud
- C# + Unity
- How to engineer augmented reality experiences
- How to innovate
- How to sell
- React/typescript front end development
- Studied company culture
- Picked clever brains
- Typescript
- Big team git systems
- Microsoft Azure
- What it's like to work at a huge company
- Programmed the phone functionality from scratch (Python, Node JS)
- Assembled and configured hardware (Raspberry Pi, 4G module, touch screen)
- Designed and built out a slick front-end (React JS)
- Linux programming: network interfaces, device drivers, serial communication
- Socket programming
- AT commands
- Alpha signal research for hedge funds
- Applied machine learning to finance
- Developed natural language processing microservices
- The value of data
- Applied quantitative finance
- How to hire people and scale a new business
- Build beautiful websites
- Learned how to design
- Liased with clients
- React
- Gatsby + JAMstack + Netlify
- Figma
- Designed and developed internal tools
- Pitched and presented
- Maintained and iterated
- SSH/Linux
- SQL databases
- PHP
- Travelled to Monash University's Prato, Italy Centre
- Studied the history of innovation, creativity, and technology
- Built the coolest thing I've made yet
- Webpack
- Node.js
- Generative art through programming
- Participated in
- Investigated social issues faced by international students
- Took out the people's choice award with my teams project, Monitor189
- How to uncover root problems
- How to design, build and pitch a solution
- How startups get things done
- How to build a full-stack web app
- Built a virtual pitch for our new band, Robot House Time Travel Music
- Send it out to some bookers
- Played some great gigs
- Making 3D models with Blender
- 3D for the web with three.js
- How important it is to do things differently
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Customer Engineer Intern, Cloud
November 2021 to February 2022
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Summer vacationer, front end development
January to February, 2021
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I built a working mobile phone
COVID lockdown project
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Quantitative Researcher
Since July 2020
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Freelance developer + design intern
March to December, 2020
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Project support, backend development
September 2018 to July 2020
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Love Bot City – Creative Computing, Prato, Italy
July 2019
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Monitor189 – Leave No One Behind program
July to September, 2019
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Band project – Robot House Fun-House
August, 2019