About Isobel

I was born, and now live, on Dharawal land. I pay my respects to the traditional owners of this land, and to its leaders, past, present, and emerging. I am extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to build my life in this country, while also acknowledging that this land was never ceded. It is here that I grew up, got my education, built my career, and got married.

I've had a computer since I was about five years old, at a time when that wasn't actually that common. I began programming as a curiosity in high school, teaching myself C, C++, Python, and Javascript.

In university, as an electrical engineer, my programming focused on lower-level languages. I got to use ASM on a variety of processors, got deeper into C and C++, and learned Java for embedded devices.

After university, I moved to Sydney, and took up a role with IBM. There I used PHP and JQuery to contribute to a number of in-house tracking solutions for our local department. I moved into a PKI analyst role, and used a variety of Bash, Batch, Python, and VBScript to help automate the creation of new tickets, renewal of existing ones, and enable bulk changes to an existing backend Access database.

I later moved into a SOC analyst role. While there, I replaced an aging Access database with PostgreSQL, using PHP to drive an Angular (v1) website to build a new tracking tool, reducing query times from nearly a minute to less than a second.

I moved back to Wollongong in 2018, and in late 2019, took a role with a local 3D printing startup, BuildBee. My roles were varied, including operations management, customer support, and eventually development. I developed an automated, GDPR-compliant account deletion process, rewrote our cloud slicer, improved the build times for our printer management software, improved the security of our account creation process, and lots more.

Since 2022, I've been working at Easy Agile. As part of their first dedicated data team, we've established new data pipelines using in-house and off-the-shelf tooling. For in-house tooling, we've used a combination of AWS EC2, Batch, Lambda, and SQS, utilising Typescript and Python. Our warehouse is Snowflake, using DBT for transformations to deliver insights across the business.