Melanie Thewlis
Full Stack Engineer at Fullstack Engineer - Freelance
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMelanie Thewlis is a Full Stack Engineer and creative technologist with 11 years of experience building data-driven, accessible digital experiences that connect people with urban and environmental systems. She blends a strong front-end focus on JavaScript, React and D3 with backend and DevOps skills (Next.js, Python, Mapbox, AWS) to transform complex datasets into intuitive, story-led interfaces used by hundreds of thousands of people. At the City of Melbourne she shipped award-winning civic projects like Mapping Aboriginal Melbourne and the Stormwater Sensors game, and now applies that civic lens at Sitemate to product engineering. A practiced creative coder and exhibiting artist, she brings generative art, sensor work and AI experimentation (including retrieval-augmented generation) into rapid prototyping and public-facing tools. Earlier she founded and scaled an international web agency and has led end-to-end product delivery in healthcare and research contexts, combining design sensibility with pragmatic engineering.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Creative Computing, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Creative Computing at University of LondonThe University of MelbourneCELTA English as a Second Language, CELTA English as a Second Language at RMIT University
German, English
Github Skills (43)
static-site-generator10
fastest10
graphql10
compiler10
frontend10
gatsby10
react10
colors9
java8
css7
linux6
github6
javascript6
jquery-ui5
maven5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
codingCookie/github-label-maker
Oct 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 8 months
github-repositoriesmakerrepositorieslabel-maker
khaptonstall/alexa-guidebook
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 months
guidebookalexa-skillsdevelopingalexa
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