Alex
Palma

Foxbat configurator — an online tool to assist customers of Foxbat, a small aircraft importer and customiser based in Australia, determine the layout of their instrument panel to streamline placing their order.

PhotoVow — a two-sided marketplace Ruby on Rails site connecting enthusiast photographers looking for work, with wedding planners searching for a photographer suited to their requirements and budget

DigitalPT — a digital personal trainer for people without gym experience. Group project @ Coder Academy

Initial website for a relatives plunger product — This was the first webpage for a relatives plunger product, made for free in my spare time. It got superseded when they made their own website that integrated an online store. Optimised for page size and load time. (I even took and edited most of the images used)

Bluesky Dispatcher — This was a project to take a tool (Bluesky) originally written for command line usage and make it accessible over websocket, necessary in order to use it via a web GUI. I decided to discontinue it after evaluating the bluesky-queueserver project which was being developed around the same time and which I subsequently was able to contribute a little towards.

Australian Synchrotron Open Day 2019 maze game — This was a project to demonstrate the full stack that my team (Scientific Computing) works with for our group's stall at the 2019 Synchrotron Open Day to the public. It was a maze game where you had to control your "particle" with an industrial joystick to navigate it out of the maze of the synchrotron as fast as you could without hitting the walls. Afterwards you could see your name on a high scores screen (if you were fast enough!) and get your route out of the maze plotted by a motorised plotter on a piece of paper to take home. I worked on the backend and contributed to the React frontend.

XAS beamline slewscan project — This was a project to implement slew-scanning capability at the XAS beamline at the Australian Synchrotron and to supply a brand new web-based GUI to control it. I contributed towards the adoption of the Bluesky queueserver into the architecture, the adoption and adaption of existing code (ophyd-api) developed by fellow scientists to grab Ophyd device values,the BFF (Backend for the frontend, Fastapi) and most of the GUI (React, redux, redux-saga) before extra help joined the team.

Smart data chart — This was related to the XAS slewscan project. To recreate much of the functionality from an older engineering gui plotter, and add more, and package it into a React component. A lot of my work also went into the corresponding backend module which held the chart data and also downsampled it when it was excessive for what the web component would display. The web component would dynamically request extra data upon the user zooming. This was made off the recharts chart library, it also featured the ability to define arbitrary custom lines making use of javascript eval, which I judged to be safe given it was only contained to the browser and not uploaded to any server to be shared with other users.