Kurt Lawrence
Senior Software Developer Client Liaison at Precision Mining
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKurt Lawrence is a Senior Software Developer and client liaison with a decade of experience at the intersection of mining engineering and software, currently shaping spatial solutions at Foresight Spatial Labs while maintaining hands-on mining engineering work. He founded daedalus.report to automate reporting and environmental landform design, and authored ogma, an open-source scripting language for tabular data—demonstrating a product-first approach to niche domain tooling. Kurt specializes in 3D spatial math, large-scale tabular data processing, and Rust systems work, and has extended widely used tooling like the colored-rs crate with pragmatic cross-platform fixes. Comfortable moving between CAD/3D manipulation, bespoke Spry scheduling extensions (including the Networkr haulage generator), and client-facing technical roles, he combines domain expertise with practical software craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mining and Mineral Engineering, 7, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mining and Mineral Engineering, 7 at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (5)
rust10
ws-api10
winapi10
crate10
wp-api10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
colored-rs/colored
Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
(Rust) Coloring terminal so simple you already know how to do it !
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 33 reviews, 25 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Kurt focused on enhancing the `colored-rs/colored` crate, primarily by adding Windows-specific functionality for colorizing terminal output. They introduced and updated a control function to manage the virtual terminal environment on Windows. Their contributions involved adapting the crate's dependency on `winconsole` to `winapi`, and then refining it, demonstrating a focus on cross-platform compatibility. They also ensured backwards compatibility with the crate, by returning dummy `Result` values.
ansi-termrustto-doso-simpleknow-how
kurtlawrence/cargo-modoc
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
Generate module documentation from markdown files
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
documentation-generatormarkdown
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