I'm Rob. I'm currently a software developer for the Australian Council of Trade Unions, building software that helps make society fairer.
Before that I worked on making government services better at Australia's Digital Transformation Agency, and on supercomputing data warehousing and analytics at New Zealand eScience Infrastructure.
My go-to tools are Python and PostgreSQL.
Technically, my main interest and specialty is at the intersection of database and application software layers: How to structure applications and databases to work better together.
I like to prove how glamourous I am by speaking about databases, data management, and other topics at various global conferences and local tech events.
| date | title | conference | location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-25 | Unions: Hacking society's operating system | linux.conf.au | Sydney |
| 2017-09-08 | Your database migrations are bad, and you should feel bad | PostgresOpen | San Francisco |
I'm the creator of several open source software projects.
| project | description | docs | code |
|---|---|---|---|
| migra | A schema comparison and migration tool for PostgreSQL | docs | github |
| sqlakeyset | The only multi-column, multi-direction offset-free paging library for sqlalchemy | github | |
| logx | Zero-config best practice python logging | github | |
| autovenv | Automatic python version and virtualenv management | github | |
| csvx | Better python csv file handling | docs | github |
| sqlbag | Miscellaneous boilerplate for working with SQL databases | github |