Been working for most of the past decade at PEXA - mostly in data roles - although did drift away for about a year working with startups and NFPs. I’m now in the data science team and looking to see if that is the right fit for me or I want to drift back towards a more business-oriented or engineering-intensive role (compared with modelling and statistics).

While analysis and machine learning has been interesting, the underlying architecture has been keeping me particularly enthused which is why I perhaps feel drawn down the engineering side. It’s all good though and the best roles have the autonomy to be working on a few different areas.

I’m leaning more into the open source community and looking to contribute more often both through github and meetups. I want to plan this more deliberately but my feel is that I’ll aim to connect more closely with the Melbourne data community, and also restart volunteering now that I’ve handed on the great work of Empowered Together to a new team. I’ve dipped my toes back in by connecting with housing-focused communities to tackle housing abundance which has been eye-opening.

I’ve also recently completed some formal postgraduate education in statistics. However I am always looking to better describe the underlying mechanics and (ir)regularities of complex systems found in business and, well, everywhere.