Michael Blair
Software Engineer at Suncorp Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Blair is a software engineer with nine years of experience bridging machine learning research and commercial development, currently building software at Suncorp Group after work on RASP tooling for Oracle focused on detecting malicious SQL. He holds First Class Honours in IT (Computer Science) from QUT and has applied ML to real-world security problems at Oracle Labs, including detecting injected JavaScript and malicious office documents. Comfortable across stacks—from Django/Angular SPAs to Java runtime protection—he enjoys tackling hard problems and designing elegant, data-driven systems. Having recently returned from an extended trip through Europe and the UK, he brings fresh perspective, adaptability, and a track record of shipping both research prototypes and production software. Outside of work he’s an avid hiker, musician and serial hobbyist, which fuels his curiosity and pragmatic creativity.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) First Class, Computer Science, 7.00, Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) First Class, Computer Science, 7.00 at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)OP 3, OP 3 at Northside Christian College
Github Skills (5)
javascript9
open-source9
wordcloud3
histogram3
python2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Fortyonehertz/Fortyonehertz.github.io
Mar 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
Fortyonehertz/job_search_TLAs
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Python script that creates word clouds and histograms of the Three Letter Acronyms (TLAs) found in the text of job postings for a specific search on Seek.com.au
Contributions:17 commits, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 day
histogrampythonwordcloud
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