Stephen Davies
Senior Software Engineer at Clipboard
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Davies is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with a decade of experience building and leading engineering work across research and product organisations, most recently at Clipboard and CSIRO's Data61. He blends front-end and back-end expertise—contributing to high-profile open-source geospatial projects like Cesium and TerriaJS—where he focused on improving rendering reliability, explicit data loading, and UI routing. As a former team lead and technical lead, he has a track record of refactoring legacy systems, improving build processes, and shipping robust TypeScript and JavaScript solutions. His background in advanced mathematics and computer science from the University of Sydney informs a methodical approach to performance and resource management. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex geospatial and data-loading requirements into maintainable code and clearer test coverage. He pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and process improvements that reduce technical debt while keeping product delivery moving.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Github Skills (20)
webgl10
url-routing10
resium10
javascript10
typescript10
cesiumjs10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
3d10
typescripts10
testing9
spatial-data9
geospatial9
data-management9
gulp9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
TerriaJS/TerriaMap
Jun 2019 - Oct 2022
Catalog-based web geospatial visualisation platform.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 52 reviews, 53 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on front-end development tasks, specifically related to enhancing the user interface and improving the application's routing. They implemented HTML5 pushState routing using the `<base href>` tag, ensuring proper navigation within the web application. Additionally, the user updated the build process to include the `render-index` task for release, and applied code formatting changes with Prettier v2 to maintain code consistency.
geospatialvisualisationweb-basedcataloggis
TerriaJS/terriajs
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
A library for building rich, web-based geospatial data platforms.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:549 reviews, 1605 commits, 750 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the implementation of core functionalities, focusing on explicit loading mechanisms within the project's geospatial data platform library, specifically in managing Web Map Service (WMS) and related catalog item functionalities. They made changes to existing code by rewriting the existing code with explicit loading functions for various layers. The code changes were primarily in Typescript files. The work involved refactoring the codebase to improve data loading and management of imagery layers.
3d-globedataterriajsprogressive-enhancementmediawiki-extension
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