Natalie Noordhuis
Media Lead at Sydney Water
Australia
Summary
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SeniorNatalie Noordhuis is a media and communications leader with 11 years’ experience delivering digital-first newsroom strategy, audience growth and cross-platform content for major Australian organisations including Sydney Water and The Daily Telegraph. She combines strong editorial instincts and hands-on production (video, podcasts, newsletters and app alerts) with data-led audience initiatives and team leadership that has been recognised with industry awards and peer-voted honours. Comfortable translating complex issues into clear public messaging, she has led crisis and corporate communications in health and government settings while mentoring teams through rapid digital change. Unusually for a senior media lead, Natalie also contributes to open-source back-end software for Minecraft server projects, demonstrating pragmatic coding skills, protocol-level problem solving and a penchant for stability-focused engineering. This mix of editorial rigor, technical curiosity and collaborative leadership makes her effective at bridging newsroom, comms and technical stakeholders to get projects shipped.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
English, French
Stackoverflow
16reputation
47reached
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0questions
Github Skills (24)
minecraft10
compatible10
debug10
develop10
packet10
backward-compatibility10
bt10
compatibility10
php10
nib10
mc-server10
network-protocol10
protocols10
versioning10
game-development10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
iTXTech/Genisys
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Feature-rich server software for Minecraft: Pocket Edition & Windows 10 Edition Beta
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 13 PRs, 31 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Natalie primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature implementations for the Minecraft: Pocket Edition & Windows 10 Edition Beta server software. They addressed issues like hopper item duplication, fixing effects from potions, and resolving entity spawning problems. The user also refactored code related to world generation and loading. Additionally, they added functionality such as ender pearls and the ender chest.
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pmmp/PocketMine-MP
Dec 2016 - Oct 2019
Custom server software for Minecraft: Bedrock, built from scratch in PHP, C and C++
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 20 PRs, 83 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Natalie primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the PocketMine-MP Minecraft server software. Their work involved implementing new features, such as Entity Effect events and Ender Chest functionality. They also addressed existing issues by fixing bugs related to explosions and command input validation, demonstrating a focus on improving server stability and functionality. Additionally, the user made improvements to the NBT system and command registration, further refining the software's core functionality.
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