I am a Lead Full Stack Developer and Co-Founder with over a decade of experience building scalable, enterprise-grade platforms from the ground up. My career has been defined by a "founder’s mindset"—I don't just write code; I architect solutions that solve complex business logic while maintaining high standards for security and performance. From co-founding Acorn (Pursuit Technology) and building an LMS that now supports over 40 Australian federal departments, to my current role leading the technical unification of four disparate applications into a cohesive, multi-tenant Next.js ecosystem, I specialize in: Architecture & Scale: Designing robust, isolated multi-tenant systems using modern stacks like Next.js, Node.js, and Neon PostgreSQL. Deep Technical Versatility: Moving seamlessly between building custom SCORM players from scratch, engineering Machine Learning pipelines for quantitative trading, and developing Rust libraries for web3 protocols. DevOps & Infrastructure: Automating the lifecycle of applications via AWS CDK, GitHub Actions, and cloud-native environments to ensure seamless CI/CD. I am passionate about bridging the gap between high-level requirements and high-performance execution. Whether I’m navigating the complexities of government-grade Single Sign-On or implementing novel state-management patterns, my goal is always to build software that is as maintainable as it is innovative.

Garth Trickett

I am a Lead Full Stack Developer and Co-Founder with over a decade of experience building scalable, enterprise-grade platforms from the ground up. My career has been defined by a "founder’s mindset"—I don't just write code; I architect solutions that solve complex business logic while maintaining high standards for security and performance. From co-founding Acorn (Pursuit Technology) and building an LMS that now supports over 40 Australian federal departments, to my current role leading the technical unification of four disparate applications into a cohesive, multi-tenant Next.js ecosystem, I specialize in: Architecture & Scale: Designing robust, isolated multi-tenant systems using modern stacks like Next.js, Node.js, and Neon PostgreSQL. Deep Technical Versatility: Moving seamlessly between building custom SCORM players from scratch, engineering Machine Learning pipelines for quantitative trading, and developing Rust libraries for web3 protocols. DevOps & Infrastructure: Automating the lifecycle of applications via AWS CDK, GitHub Actions, and cloud-native environments to ensure seamless CI/CD. I am passionate about bridging the gap between high-level requirements and high-performance execution. Whether I’m navigating the complexities of government-grade Single Sign-On or implementing novel state-management patterns, my goal is always to build software that is as maintainable as it is innovative.

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I am a Lead Full Stack Developer and Co-Founder with over a decade of experience building scalable, enterprise-grade platforms from the ground up. My career has been defined by a “founder’s mindset”—I don’t just write code; I architect solutions that solve complex business logic while maintaining high standards for security and performance.

From co-founding Acorn (Pursuit Technology) and building an LMS that now supports over 40 Australian federal departments, to my current role leading the technical unification of four disparate applications into a cohesive, multi-tenant Next.js ecosystem, I specialize in:

Architecture & Scale: Designing robust, isolated multi-tenant systems using modern stacks like Next.js, Node.js, and Neon PostgreSQL.

Deep Technical Versatility: Moving seamlessly between building custom SCORM players from scratch, engineering Machine Learning pipelines for quantitative trading, and developing Rust libraries for web3 protocols.

DevOps & Infrastructure: Automating the lifecycle of applications via AWS CDK, GitHub Actions, and cloud-native environments to ensure seamless CI/CD.

I am passionate about bridging the gap between high-level requirements and high-performance execution. Whether I’m navigating the complexities of government-grade Single Sign-On or implementing novel state-management patterns, my goal is always to build software that is as maintainable as it is innovative.

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Work Experience

Co-founder, Full Stack Developer at Acorn (Pursuit Technology)
January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2019
Co-founded Acorn (Pursuit Technology) and led the development of v1 of our flagship product, Learn Hub. Architected and built a scalable, enterprise-grade learning management system that now supports over 40 Australian federal departments. Managed DevOps, provisioning the application's infrastructure in AWS, including the CI/CD process. Configured and maintained a Windows AD FS server that enabled Single Sign-On between Learn Hub and government intranets.
Machine Learning Engineer at ProdigyAI
January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2022
Engineered a quantitative trading system leveraging recent advances in financial machine learning. Created a Python process to capture live limit-order book data from an exchange via its WebSocket API. Implemented data transformation techniques to convert raw data into trading-specific neural networks (Deep LOB) interpretable by the model. Wrote Bash scripts to automate the instantiation of on-demand Google Cloud compute instances.
Full Stack Developer at Sunlight
January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2023
Investigated three competing web3 libraries—Peergos, Berty, and Warp—that run on top of networking protocols libp2p and IPFS. Developed a Rust library to integrate the Warp protocol with the Taurus framework, enabling frontend construction in TypeScript. Implemented a novel version (Rust/TypeScript) of JJ Dubray's SAM pattern to manage the application's state.
Lead Full Stack Developer at Your Safety Partners
June 1, 2024 - Present
Consolidated requirements from four distinct apps into a cohesive, multi-tenant enterprise solution. Designed and implemented an automated, isolated multi-tenant database architecture using React via Next.js and Neon PostgreSQL, with Kysely for secure data segmentation and dynamic routing across central and tenant databases. Implemented automated DevOps and documentation: CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions and AWS CDK IaC, enforced coding standards, and authored comprehensive server architecture docs to ensure consistent deployments. Developed a custom SCORM player from scratch (inspired by Moodle's implementation) to migrate legacy systems to the current tech stack.

Education

Bachelor of Economics at Australian National University
January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2015

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Software & Internet, Professional Services, Government