Software Engineer Christopher Le
Currently at Optik Consultancy
Located in Sydney, Australia
Resume
Christopher Le
Final-year Software Engineering Student & Full-Stack Developer
Driven by a strong passion for front-end development, with a proven ability to craft impactful user-facing solutions that optimise business processes and deliver significant operational time savings. Dedicated to leveraging modern web technologies with a keen focus on performance and SEO optimization.
Email: hi@sirhcle.com
Technical Skills
Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, HTML/CSS, Python, Java, SQL
Technologies
React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, TanStack (React) Query, Prisma, tRPC
DevOps & Tools
Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence
Professional Experience
Software Engineer Intern / Tech Lead
November 2025 - February 2026Optik Consultancy
Engineering consulting firm, working directly with a startup client to deliver a tailored web application solution.
- •Led a small team of software engineering interns to deliver a web application for a client with a clearly defined product vision, acting as the primary technical decision maker.
- •Collaborated closely with the client to refine requirements, negotiate technical trade-offs, and align their desired features with scalable, maintainable system design.
- •Provided technical guidance and support to teammates, assisting with architecture choices, code reviews, debugging, and implementation of best practices.
- •Helped translate non-technical requirements into clear technical tasks, improving team coordination and ensuring consistent progress toward project milestones.
- •Balanced short term delivery pressures with long term code quality, advocating for sustainable solutions that reduced future technical debt and improved system viability.
Web Developer & IT Admin
March 2023 - November 2024Home Fragrance Co.
Small sized Australian fragrance business with wholesale operations and retail e-commerce presence across Australia, UK, and Europe.
- •Lead management and continuous improvement of Shopify e-commerce platforms for Australian, UK, and European markets, customising themes and optimising user experience with Liquid and jQuery, resulting in a 15% improvement in checkout conversion rates.
- •Partnered with marketing team to implement on-page SEO strategies and analyse website traffic, contributing to a 10% increase in organic search traffic year-over-year.
- •Provided dedicated IT support across all business operations, including troubleshooting e-commerce platform issues and maintaining critical technical infrastructure.
Technical Projects
Shipping Operations Automation System
- •Designed and developed a scalable full-stack web application to automate manual transfer of 3PL Excel data to Direct Freight, saving 2+ hours daily.
- •Integrated RESTful APIs (Direct Freight, Shopify) to enable automated shipping label generation and access to real-time customer delivery instructions.
- •Implemented robust data validation to flag exceptions, reducing shipping errors and improving operational efficiency by 25%.
AI-Powered B2B Order Automation
- •Developed an internal Shopify integrated extension automating B2B customer order creation from diverse formats (Excel, Images, PDFs), eliminating ~10 minutes of manual entry per order.
- •Engineered a solution utilising OpenAI and Vercel's AI SDK to parse order details with estimated 95% accuracy, significantly reducing manual data correction.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (Software) (Honours)
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
New Colombo Plan Scholarship
Korea University
Spoken Languages: English (Native), Korean (Intermediate), Vietnamese (Conversational)