Chris Oliver
Graduate Teaching Assistant
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Oliver is a software engineer and graduate teaching assistant at the University of Auckland with seven years of hands-on experience across full-stack R&D and academic roles. He balances practical product work at Aderant with teaching and tutoring, bringing both industry-grade engineering practices and clear pedagogy to classroom and code. Based in New Zealand, Chris progressed from frontline retail and tutoring roles into repeated R&D engagements, showing a pragmatic, user-focused approach to software development. His GitHub tagline—"To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion"—hints at a taste for elegant algorithms and recursive problem solving beneath his applied engineering work. As a University of Auckland alumnus in Engineering Science, he combines rigorous academic foundations with real-world delivery experience. Colleagues would describe him as a curious, service-oriented engineer who enjoys translating complex concepts into teachable, maintainable solutions.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Engineering Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Engineering Science at University of AucklandCIE IGCSE & A Levels, CIE IGCSE & A Levels at Wentworth College
Stackoverflow
363reputation
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Github Skills (41)
algorithm10
algorithms10
conversions10
javascript10
python10
mathematics10
maths10
cryptography10
data-structures10
datastructures-algorithms10
sorting-algorithms10
tuple9
kotlin-language9
youtube9
kotlin9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisO345/furthermaths-module
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
An extension to the pre-installed and packaged python default maths library
Contributions:23 reviews, 59 commits, 20 PRs in 3 months
mathtuplemathspythonpypi
ChrisO345/chriso345
Sep 2020 - Jan 2025
Hey Look, It's Me!
Contributions:4 PRs, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 4 months
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