Benedict Gattas

About Me

G'day!

I'm Ben, a full-stack software engineer from the sunny city of Brisbane, Australia.

I work remotely for a cloud-based accounting software provider called Xero, in a team looking after the sales tax product for Australian small businesses.

My engineering interests are in cloud platforms (especially AWS), development tooling and backend system design.

On the product side, from my economics background, I'm pretty keen on data analysis and incorporating behavioural design into product thinking (influencing users to make better decisions).

Outside of work I'm a musician! I play violin in my local community orchestra and play piano in my free time.

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My Skills

TypeScript

React / Redux / Sagas

Node.JS

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Python

C# / .NET

Java

Projects I'm not super side-projecty but in the past I've done some research projects that I've listed here, as well as some web and mobile apps that I've worked on.

Evaluating Feature Attribution Methods

My undergraduate honours thesis was in the area of interpretable deep learning.

I developed a software package to bundle together "attribution" methods - scripts that can explain the predictions of black-box neural network models in terms of input features. For example, these methods can visualise that a model predicting "rabbit" looked at the ears and eyes in making its prediction, by highlighting those areas on the input image.

My paper examined the effectiveness of these methods and came up with several ways to evaluate them on novel criteria.

Github Paper

Wellspring Genetics

A responsive static website built for a specialist medical clinic in Brisbane.

This was designed in Adobe XD and built in HTML / CSS following mobile-first, responsive CSS.

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Adobe XD

Live Link

Securities Lending Cordapp

A proof-of-concept distributed ledger "dApp" that lets users buy/sell securities and carry out security loans, built on an early version of the Corda platform.

I completed this project as part of an internship at a fintech software company in Brisbane called GBST.

Kotlin

Java

SQL

Corda

Github

Operapedia

A cross-platform mobile app that delivers IPA and Italian translations for arias in the standard opera repertoire.

This was built as part of a capstone university team project, and it was a way to give back to the classical music community (although the app never launched publicly!)

Flutter

Dart

Firebase

Adobe XD

Project Bluto

A cross-platform mobile app for distributed, privacy-preserving contact tracing, based on Ethereum smart contracts.

This was built as part of a capstone university project around the time when Covid-19 contact tracing through mobile phone proximity was a hot topic research area.

React Native

Javacsript

Ethereum