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.

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 2026

Optik 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 2024

Home 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

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLPrismaTailwind CSS
  • 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

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptNode.jsSQLiteVercel AI SDKOpenAI
  • 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)

February 2020 - May 2026

New Colombo Plan Scholarship

Korea University

August 2022 - February 2023

Spoken Languages: English (Native), Korean (Intermediate), Vietnamese (Conversational)