Tim Quelch
Senior Engineer at Versent
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolTim Quelch is a Senior Engineer in Melbourne with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems, full-stack applications, and performance-critical simulation software. He blends academic rigor from PhD research in non-Euclidean sampling and optimisation with practical AWS architecture and DevOps delivery—having designed bespoke landing zones, serverless and containerized workloads, and multi-tenant CI/CD pipelines at Versent. A strong C/C++ and MATLAB background complements his work accelerating algorithms on GPUs and contributing backend improvements to the popular org-roam project (enhancing graph and citation linking). Comfortable translating research into production, he also has a track record of teaching complex signal-processing and computing topics to university students.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Computer and Software Systems, and Computational and Simulation Science, GPA - 6.97/7.00, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Computer and Software Systems, and Computational and Simulation Science, GPA - 6.97/7.00, First Class Honours at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
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Github Skills (8)
sqlite10
sql10
sqlite-database10
org-mode10
emacs-lisp10
elisp8
variadic-templates6
tuples6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
org-roam/org-roam
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 8 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to enhancing the Org-roam project, focused on improving the graph database and citation linking functionalities. They added citation link support to the graph, refactored code to split multicite links correctly, and generated backlinks using various org-ref cite types. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to tag updates and database transaction atomicity by wrapping database updates. Several commits improved the internal workings of the database interactions.
replicapkmroamorg-modeemacs
TimQuelch/emacs.d
Aug 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:494 commits, 266 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 5 months
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