The Router

Internet as an everyday necessity for many of us, we browse through many websites from social medias, search engines, to breaking news on the internet. One minute of website downtime can cost companies of example Apple to lose tens of thousands of dollars during the release of newest MacBook, have you ever thought about what goes behind maintaining functionality of websites when high volumes of internet traffic wanting to funnel in...

Today, Rachel has a chat with Graham Cummins from KJR, all about consultancy, KJR’s graduate opportunities, community in KJR, and their latest projects.

Graham is a general regional manager at KJR. KJR is a Software Quality Engineering consultancy, and one of UQCS’s silver sponsors this year, with over 25 years of experience in tech consulting, software testing and IT solutions. They provide services like software quality ...

As you may know, the UQCS AGM is coming up, and at the AGM we will elect a new committee for 2022. UQCS has been around for just over 10 years, and we thought that now would be a great time to have a chat to some of the past president and talk to them about what they learned during their time at the helm of one of UQ’s largest technology focused societies. This is the history of UQCS, as told by six former UQCS presidents, Jackson,...

Today, Liv has a chat to Dave Durbin from Canva, all about image processing and computer graphics, and their application to one of the largest graphic design platforms in the world.

Dave is a team lead at Canva with a passion for computer graphics and computer vision. He has been with Canva for three and a half years, moving between different teams before finally settling into the image processing team. With many years exp...

Today, we have an exciting episode at the intersection of computer science and mathematics! Ben Burton and Rhuaidi Burke, from the School of Mathematics and Physics at UQ, both work in the field of computational topology. They’re here to give a brief introduction to computational topology, as well as some of the unique challenges that arise when writing software for mathematicians.

Benjamin Burton (pronouns he/him) is a pr...

Today we’re chatting to Tony Lykke, @tl on Discord, 2015 UQ grad and current infrastructure engineer at Hudson River Trading in New York City. Join us as we explore both the world of infrastructure engineering and SRE in automated trading…and the world of the Big Apple, New York City.

Tony works as a software engineer at Hudson River Trading in NYC, working on a variety of infrastructure projects with a focus on improving developer ...

Kendrick Tan, also known as @kendrick on Slack, has worked in the blockchain space for many years, and currently works at DFX in decentralised finance, where he is the Chief Technical Officer. He’s here to give us a 20-minute rundown on blockchain, Ethereum, decentralised finance and more, as well as addressing some of the concerns regarding the past, present and future of cryptocurrency.

Kendrick graduated with a computer...

Join us for a brand new episode of the Router, where we chat with Dr Rob Bell, also known as “Dr Rob”, of Scope and Network Ten fame! He’s been inspiring students to pursue STEM on television for many years, and is joining us to talk about his experiences as a science educator.

Dr Rob Bell, also known as Dr Rob, is a scientist, television presenter, communicator, and writer (and chocolate appreciator). He is known for havi...

Harry Guthrie, also known as @guthers on Slack, is a recent UQCS alumni, studied software engineering, and has a wealth of experiences to share, from travelling in Illinois to China to co-founding a software company, Autop, and everything in between. Tune in to hear about how “saying yes” to opportunities can lead you to exciting and unexpected places.

Harry is Co-Founder of Autop, a Brisbane-based company delivering real-...

Will Toohey works full-time as a software engineer, but in his spare time he is a passionate rhythm game fan and hardware hobbyist. Today he’s gonna be telling all about his experiences working on side projects, and how you can get into hardware, no 4-year electrical engineering degree required!

Will Toohey (also known as @mon on Slack) currently works as a Firmware Developer at MOVUS, and in his spare time works on hardwa...

Side projects can be daunting. You have a brilliant idea in your mind, but how do you get it into code? Kenton and Darren, both current uni students and side project veterans are here to give you guidance on how to start, finish and maintain your side projects.

Darren Fu: "Hi everyone, my name is Darren and I’m a very-late-year software engineering and maths student at UQ. Along the way I’ve worked on some cool things...

Welcome to the first episode of season 2 of The Router! In this episode, we have Jodie Vlassis and Tanvir Ahmed to tell us all about their journey to, and their life in, Atlassian's Security team.

Jodie Vlassis is a cyber security professional with 5 years’ experience in Cloud Security, governance/risk and compliance, government strategy and policy. Jodie is a Senior Trust & Security Analyst on Atlassian’s Securit...

Want to make the most out of uni? Nick Lambourne, former president of UQCS and intrepid UQ alumni, is here to help. Join Nick as he walks you through his university experiences, from Brisbane to Silicon Valley and everywhere in between.

It’s holiday season coming up and The Router will be taking a short break over Christmas and New Year. We’ll be relaunching in 2021, bigger and better than ever!

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Curious about open source? Join Katie McLaughlin, current director of the Python Software Foundation and with over 5 years in open source contribution, as she shares her experience and tips for contributing to open source projects.

Related links:
Forge Your Future with Open Source http://fossforge.com/
PyCon Australia http://pycon.org.au/
Ruby Conf AU https://www.rubyconf.org.au/
WriteTheDocs https://www.wr...

These days, there is much hype around data science and machine learning, but what's working in it actually like? Samual MacDonald, a machine learning researcher at Max Kelsen (a Brisbane-based AI/ML consultancy) gives insight into what a machine learning job actually looks like, and how he got there.

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2020 has been a unique and challenging year for so many reasons. What was it like being a first-year student in the midst of all that? We sat down with Paul Clarke and Utkarsh Sharma — both first-year computer science students and members of the UQCS general committee — to talk about their experiences and how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their first year at UQ.

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Google.com is the most visited website in the world, and the company that backs it, Google, is one of the largest tech companies in the world. As a result, many computing students see it as a dream company to work for, but what’s it like actually working there? Emily Bennett, UQ computer science honours alum & current Googler, shares her experiences from her first year at the company, as well as advice on how you can make it th...

Product Managers are a key part of modern software companies all over the world, but very few people can tell you exactly what it is they do. Lucky for you, we've found a friendly PM who's willing to break it down. Jonathan Katahanas has been working in product management for SaaS applications at Atlassian for more than three years since graduating from Business/Commerce at UQ and he's dropped by to chat to Liv about...

Have you ever come across documentation for a library or framework that was so good it made development painless? As it turns out, there's a whole field responsible for making that feeling a reality: technical writing. Lucas Costi is a technical writer at GitHub (you might have heard of it) and he's kindly joined us to talk about what his role involves and how he's combined technical and writing skills to produce ste...