Jonathon Waterhouse's C.V.

I'm a software engineer with going on 20 years (!) of experience, who has been fortunate enough to work on a pretty varied set of problems, predominantly in start-ups. Most of my experience has been as a lead full-stack developer across backend, frontend, devops and mobile, mostly using a Python/Node/React/AWS stack.

Generally I am interested in working with good people on good problems :)

Based in Brisbane, Australia

Mobile: +61 487 262 276

Email: jon@wtrhs.com

GitHub: https://www.github.com/jwtrhs

Website: https://www.wtrhs.com

Education

University of Queensland

Bachelor of Engineering (Software Engineering) with Honours

2003 - 2009

Thesis - "Automated Configuration of Scanning Electron Microscopes"

Awarded High Distinction

Work History

Software Engineer - Research

BASE (University of Queensland) - https://basefacility.org.au

May 2025 - Present

R&D of computational methods to optimize mRNA design for clinical/therapeutical applications, working alongside scientists, researchers and academics. Very algorithmic, data science, AI/ML and performance/profiling heavy, with full-stack development of a web app to make our research usable and available to scientists globally.

Principal Software Engineer

Midnight Health - https://midnight.health

December 2022 - May 2025

Full-stack development of an online telehealth platform as both a team lead and IC. Tackled some particularly gnarly scale-up performance issues in Postgres and led the implementation of a comprehensive frontend design uplift in React.

General Problem Solver

KIN Architects - https://www.kinarchitects.com.au

July 2021 - Now

My partner has started her own architecture practice and I took some time off to support her and her business. I was essentially a Mr. Fix-it for whatever needed doing but often included being tech support, office manager, web developer, server admin and furniture removalist.

Senior Software Engineer (Contract)

Floodmapp - https://www.floodmapp.com

January 2021 - July 2021

Wrangling several disparate meteorological data sources into a queryable database for machine learning applications and reverse-engineering of Windows-only flood modelling software (HEC-RAS) to run in a headless Linux environment.

Lead Software Engineer

Scrunch - https://www.scrunch.com

August 2017 - February 2021

Led a small, agile team of full-stack devs developing a social media marketing web app. Major projects include a new data pipeline to process large amounts of social data, training and deploying machine learning models, migrating the legacy app to a more modern tech stack, building a new B2C mobile app from scratch, and reducing cloud infrastructure costs from $12k+ to ~$2.5k per month.

Head of Development

HINDSITE Industries - https://www.hindsiteind.com

January 2017 - July 2017

Built a communications and media capture platform focused on wearables (esp. smart glasses), from concept to MVP.

Senior Software Engineer

RedEye Apps - https://www.redeye.co

November 2014 - December 2016

Backend development of a CAD drawing management system and built ML classifiers to detect components within CAD drawings.

Previously at Thomson Reuters, Thiess, Vasco Data Security (now OneSpan) and Intellection (acquired by FEI).

References

Available upon request.