Jasper Miles
Software Engineer at Descartes Systems Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJasper Miles is a software engineer based in Melbourne with nine years of hands-on experience building reliable backend systems across startups and enterprise teams. Currently at Descartes Systems Group, he has a track record of rapid adaptation through contract and product roles at companies like Localz, GoodHuman and Settify. He contributes to open-source tooling—extending the well-used convert-units library with new unit types, tests and documentation—demonstrating attention to correctness and developer experience. Jasper blends a strong work ethic with a continual learning mindset from his University of Melbourne computing degree, and is comfortable moving between feature delivery, test-driven improvements and expanding library capabilities.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
conversions10
units-of-measurement10
test-automation9
nodejs8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
convert-units/convert-units
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
An elegant way to convert quantities between different units.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jasper primarily contributed to expanding the functionality of a unit conversion library. They implemented new unit conversions related to speed and pressure, adding corresponding test cases to validate the changes. Furthermore, they introduced angle measurements, demonstrating a focus on extending the scope and capabilities of the library. The user also updated the test suite and documentation, showing a commitment to software quality and user experience.
javascriptunitsmeasurequantitiesconversion
jbmiles/intervalsJS
Jun 2017 - Oct 2020
A Javascript library for working with intervals
Contributions:5 releases, 94 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
javascript
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