Martin Paulo

• Consistently met project deadlines by effectively managing time and prioritizing tasks according to importance.
• Developed scalable and maintainable code and tests, ensuring the long-term stability and reliability of the software.
• Collaborated with management, internal and development partners regarding software application design status and project progress.
• Implemented end-to-end testing to improve the release process.
• Created and delivered training in end-to-end testing for the rest of the development team.

• Worked with a major retailer to build and establish their new digital subscription service.
• Was part of the team evaluating a new key foundational product at a leading Australian software company.
• Helped to develop the software and the infrastructure required to deploy digital licenses for a state government department.

Research Computing Services (RCS) provides specialised computing services to researchers at the University of Melbourne. RCS run the Universities High Performance Computing (HPC) system, the on premise cloud system, and assorted storage systems.

• Developed and delivered training to introduce researchers to key cloud concepts
• Developed resources to bring develop new cloud trainers at Universities across Australia
• Contributed code, chapters and fixes to the OpenStack First App Guide aimed at software engineers
• Developed a data pipeline and tool suite to support RCS line of business reporting
• Presented an introduction to the research cloud to the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform team
• Created a system to automate and manage researcher allocation requests for both storage and compute access
• Helped to produce the Research Computing Portal, a self-service web interface to allow researchers to easily use their RCS provided resources

VeRSI and the V3 Alliance were not-for-profit agencies established by a consortium of Victorian Universities to provide high performance computing and software development services to researchers in the state.

When working there, Martin:

• Evangelised new OpenStack cloud projects into the National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (Nectar) Project community. This work required community engagement, application integration, documentation, sample applications, deployment scripts, templates, and web-casts, all of which showcased the new features;
• Contributed documentation and code to the OpenStack upstream community;
• Was a Senior Developer on the team doing the initial deployment of the National Research Cloud (Nectar), Australia's national OpenStack based research cloud;
• Was team lead on a project to migrate the tDAR archaeological repository to run on the Nectar cloud, adding significant features and application integrations;
• Was team lead on the La Trobe University Australian Historical Archaeology Database project;
• Worked on the team charged with porting the Galaxy/Cloudman biomedical application suite from AWS to the Nectar cloud;
• Created and presented several introductory and advanced tutorials on OpenStack to researchers.