Started a new position as a postdoc in Australia National Uni - building a marine conservation tool for industry.
I live a double life as marine predator scientist and a web/software developer. My background is in science and I picked up frontend development after my PhD because I wanted to build cool stuff!
On my nights and weekends, I'm either training brazilian jiu jitsu (BJJ), building out various fun side projects, or doing self-study to improve my BJJ.
I'm also interested in blockchain/web3 and AI/ML.
Work Experience
Coaching adult fundamentals classes. Developing and experimenting with various training and teaching approaches (eg using games following the ecological approach) to improve skill development, engagement and information retention in beginner students.
Collaborating with project managers and designers to create strategic custom Wordpress websites that meet the client's goals. Developed multiple responsive and interactive Wordpress websites that are fast, accessible and follow modern best practices. Fixed bugs and updated internal starter template code to improve future workflow and development time.
Tools: PHP, HTML, CSS, JS, Wordpress, React, Figma, Asana, Notion
Research project: Discovering the role of rare, endangered and culturally important marine predators in the Tasman Fracture Marine Park
- Managing the research project to make sure it meets the deliverables of the research grant.
- Assisting with fieldwork preparation and post-deployment data handling and analysis
- Writing and developing content for science / project communication for various target audiences and stakeholders
Teaching:
- Lecturing and running practicals for marine bio-telemetry and marine ecology subjects.
- Supervising undergrad student research projects.
- Developed new and updated existing teaching materials to improve quality and learning experience for the students.
Marine predator consulting work:
Researched and wrote reports for environmental impact assessments and literature reviews for external contract-based assignments.
Life Chiropractic Centre (Singapore):
lifechirocentre.com
Re-designed and optimised the website for a Singapore chiropractor to drive more new patient bookings and doubled their yearly revenue.
Developed Facebook and Instagram ads and copy that increased traffic to the website and increased new patient bookings.
Managed and created content for the business's social media and grew their Instagram follower count from 0 to 700 in 6–12 months.
Tasmanian Judo Community:
Filmed and produced 5 promotional videos to create brand awareness of the Judo community.
Studied the seasonal variability in foraging behaviour of lactating long-nosed fur seals from Cape Gantheaume, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
Captured, handled and deployed geolocation light logos, ARGOS satellite transmitters and time-depth recorders on adult female fur seals.
Performed path analyses, statistical habitat modelling in R.
Produced 4 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles.
Wrote successful grants applications to receive ~80K in research funding.
Camped and worked in a small team of 3–6 people on a remote sub-Antarctic island for 6–8 week annual field trips.
Executed data collection tasks such as daily counts, flipper tagging, microchipping and measuring pups of New Zealand sea lions.
Set up, maintained and improved camp site living conditions over the course of each field trip to keep team morale high in difficult living conditions.
Led animal tracking fieldwork component in 2 field seasons where we successfully deployed miniature GPS trackers on pups.
Produced the field trip and technical working group meeting reports. Revised and developed internal fieldwork documents and manuals.
Side Projects
Writing up a scientific manuscript for peer review publication.
Built an AI-powered chat bot that answers brazilian jiu jitsu questions from a curated database of related youtube videos.
Github: github.com/dahliasan/bjj-…
Tech stack: Next.js, Typescript, Langchain, Supabase, Tailwind CSS, OpenAI API
Built and launched a chrome extension that generates a summary of any webpage using AI.
Github: github.com/dahliasan/gpt3…
Tech stack: React.js, Chrome extension API
Built and launched an app for flippers to track new listings on OpenSea in real time and quickly identify undervalued NFTs.
Github: github.com/dahliasan/noic…
Tech stack: React.js, Vercel, Opensea API
Built a Google sheet dashboard to help teachers easily know if their assessments meet the syllabus requirements and are pitched at an appropriate level.
Education
Completed a self-paced online bootcamp that contained over 70 hours of video content about HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and UI design.
Writing
Speaking
Presented a scientific poster at the 13th Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Symposium.
Discuss my work as a frontend developer during International Women's Week, where women from various IT professions also shared their experiences.
Shared my journey from marine scientist to learning how to code and getting a developer job.
Event Meetup: meetup.com/coding-sisterh…
Produced a scientific poster video presentation for Session 6: Marine Extreme Events: Impacts, Forecasting, and Risk Management
Australia New Zealand Marine Mammal Conference
Certifications
Credential ID: 46271611
MASUP236B Operate vehicles in the field
RIIVEH305D Operate and maintain a four wheel drive vehicle
RIIVEH201D Operate light vehicle
Volunteering
Annual pup production count using capture-mark-recapture method: Captured and marked pups using a pair of clippers. Counted marked and un-marked pups to get a ratio.
Camped and worked in a small team of 3–4 people near the seal colony. Performed daily fur seal counts.
Sampled water in the Derwent River using a Secchi disc.
Helped set up camera traps
Collected data using photogrammetry methods to document the burrows made by marsupials.