Johnny Z
Senior Software Engineer at Mantel
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJohnny Z is a Senior Software Engineer based in Brisbane with 10 years of experience building cloud-native .NET/.NET Core backends and React frontends for healthcare, insurance, and enterprise applications. He has led migrations of legacy .NET apps to containerised .NET Core services and implemented AI-enhanced features using Azure OpenAI and Azure Cognitive Search. A pragmatic full-stack engineer, Johnny combines Azure and AWS service experience with CI/CD automation and serverless patterns to deliver resilient production systems. He is also an active open-source contributor to the DotNetty project, adding Redis and Protobuf codecs plus UDP and WebSocket support—work that improved cross-protocol interoperability and buffer handling. Trained with a Master of Information Technology from The University of Queensland, he brings deep systems knowledge and a knack for turning complex integrations into maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information Technology IT, Master of Information Technology IT at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (13)
udp10
protocols10
websocket10
websockets-client10
csharp10
websocket-client10
redis10
protobuffer10
networking10
protobuf10
codec10
client-websocket10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/DotNetty
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
DotNetty project – a port of netty, event-driven asynchronous network application framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 23 PRs, 261 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Johnny contributed significant code for integrating Redis and Protobuf codecs, along with Socket-based UDP and WebSocket support, to the DotNetty project. This involved implementing and porting codecs for data serialization and network protocols. The user also updated project dependencies, and refactored buffer operations to align with Netty standards. This work expanded DotNetty's capabilities by adding support for common network protocols and enhanced existing functionality.
dotnettyasynchronousasynchronous-networknetworkingnetty
StormHub/NetUV
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
.Net standard/Core binding for Libuv
Contributions:11 releases, 104 commits, 102 PRs in 6 years 3 months
dotnetnetstandardasyncionet-standardlibuv
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