{"id":4,"date":"2006-06-22T14:03:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T14:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/104.198.194.192\/index.php\/about\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T10:50:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T10:50:03","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.themissingdocs.net\/?page_id=4","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a few years, and I am going to finally fill this in. (Note: this was all written in ~2012)<\/p>\n

This is my personal blog where I discuss random things, but it is mainly about my hobby projects.\u00a0 Puzzle games, utilities for LOTRO, but it seems most of all – programming competitions.<\/p>\n

I am an experienced .Net software developer with 9 years working with .Net and c#.\u00a0 I have a variety of experience covering developing applications for integrating custom encryption systems to being a primary developer for the core systems of the Altiris enterprise management software to writing high performance UI\/middleware systems for working with high frequency trading engines.<\/p>\n

Before my attention turned to algorithm competitions I also did well in the Olympiad programs during high school.\u00a0 I got a top 50 placing in the 2007 Australian Mathematics Olympiad and was a member of the Australian team at the 2008 International Physics Olympiad in Iceland, where I obtained a Bronze Medal.<\/p>\n

During my university years I became an administrator and eventually lead developer for a text based MORPG called Dead Of Night – dealing with 100k+ lines of c++ code it was my first experience at dealing with large code bases and the challenges which come with trying to perform significant re-factoring at that scale.\u00a0 Not to mention the intricacies of balancing what game players think they want and what is actually going to be provide long-term fun.\u00a0 It was also around this time which I wrote my first ray tracer, which eventually grew into something which can produce pictures like this. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been a few years, and I am going to finally fill this in. (Note: this was all written in ~2012) This is my personal blog where I discuss random things, but it is mainly about my hobby projects.\u00a0 Puzzle games, utilities for LOTRO, but it seems most of all – programming competitions. I … Continue reading About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themissingdocs.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themissingdocs.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themissingdocs.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themissingdocs.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themissingdocs.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.themissingdocs.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/www.themissingdocs.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themissingdocs.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}