• Role: Founder & Strategist
• Organization: Metropolis Retro (Official World Chess Team and Games Club)
• Scope: Personally lead and scale the entire organization across our digital ecosystem, which includes an official Lichess team, Discord, Telegram, and Instagram profiles, alongside a core GitHub organization.
• Community Size: The digital network has expanded to include over 150 total members, with 70+ public members collaborating directly within our open-source environment.
• Accessibility: All sites and communities are entirely free to join, and we actively encourage, welcome, and support public code and content contributions on GitHub.

• Role: Board Manager (August 2024 – September 2025) | Event Host (February 2024 - August 2024) | Participant (November 2023)
• Organization: Brisbane Social Chess (BSC)
• Scope: Joined as a participant in November 2023. Visited the Royal Hotel location in December 2023, becoming a regular fixture before transitioning to an official Event Host in February 2024. Promoted to Manager and became one of seven board managers in August 2024 upon BSC registering as a Queensland Not-For-Profit Corporation. Led the organization through its major growth phase until a new management team was elected in September 2025.

• Leadership Execution: Led the BSC management team and personally trained the other 6 managers.
• Distribution Matrix: Broadcast comprehensive training emails detailing the club's progress, operational updates, metrics, and workflows to all 6 other managers.
• Targeted Mentorship: Utilized targeted in-person chats and phone calls to deliver tailored technical mentoring to a specific subset of those managers both online and across physical events.

• Strategic Scope: Mentored and trained the executive team in best practices for open, fostering communication, community building, and modern business marketing strategies—including Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM).
• Real-World Onboarding: Personally conceptualized and drove the strategic idea to get physical business cards printed for BSC to increase real-world onboarding.
• Background Credentials: This elite training was built directly on my years of experience operating at the absolute highest corporate tier on GitHub, serving as a globally listed Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Committer across 3 prominent Top-Level Projects, and ranking among the top mruby code contributors.
• Scale Implementation: This translation of enterprise open-source mechanics represents super-expert level community governance, management, and leadership deployed at best practice, massive global scale.

• Role: Technical Manager, Architect, & Owner
• Core Team: Operated at the center of production as a coder, maintainer, software architect, and owner, working closely alongside one other lead developer, Max Base, and a small, dedicated core team.

• Platform Configurations: Built, configured, and managed all corporate online profiles, two sites, and social profiles, including:
  • Official World Chess platform profile
  • Official Lichess club integration hub
  • Official X (formerly Twitter) account
  • YouTube & Instagram
  • Discord & Telegram Group
  • Read the Docs dashboard
  • Google Firebase
  • Cloudflare Dashboard administration panel

• Governance Matrix: Administered the core GitHub organization with enterprise-grade governance configurations.
• Security Controls: Implemented advanced security controls including custom Webhooks for platform integration, strict Branch Protections to guarantee code stability, and Fine-Grained Permissions across the organization layer.
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Structured a comprehensive RBAC matrix by setting up distinct GitHub Teams (including Staff, Maintainers, Triage, and standard Members), explicitly assigning targeted repositories to corresponding team profiles and managing permission delegations.

• Workspace Management: Engineered the primary BSC codebase into a structured monorepo powered by Lerna.js to manage workspace packages efficiently.
• Automation Standard: Used standardized Makefiles to orchestrate build, lint, and test scripts uniformly across the repository layer.

• User Experience: Designed and built performant user interfaces using the Eleventy (11ty) static site generator.
• Templating & Styling: Compiled with Nunjucks templates and styled cleanly with Tailwind CSS.

• Compute Architecture: Configured, deployed, and managed a high-performance serverless back-end utilizing Cloudflare Workers.
• Pipeline Deployment: Administered the service pipelines via the Wrangler CLI tool.

• Developer Ecosystem: Integrated Docker container profiles to standardize the local developer ecosystem.
• Isolation Standards: Containerized the runtime environment to enable seamless, isolated testing across all operating systems.

• Linter Matrix: Implemented an aggressive multi-linter matrix to enforce rigorous code, syntax, and directory standards across the monorepo, integrating:
  • Biome & Prettier (Automated Formatting)
  • Codespell (Spell-checking execution)
  • dprint (Ultra-fast pluggable formatting)
  • markdownlint (Documentation validation)
  • yamllint (Configuration schema checking)
  • hadolint (Dockerfile best practices execution)
  • ESLint (JavaScript/TypeScript static analysis)
  • Flake8, Pylint, & Ruff (High-performance Python lints, style enforcement, and optimization)
  • Super-Linter (Multi-language syntax verification)
  • ls-lint (Strict file and directory naming standards)
  • proselint (Documentation writing quality assurance)

• Architecture Layout: Created and maintained the core GitHub organization architecture spanning 5 production repositories and multiple custom GitHub Pages deployments.
• Continuous Integration: Configured automated CI environments featuring automated builds, testing execution via Vitest, Codecov test coverage tracking, and pre-commit hooks.

• Workflow Pipelines: Built custom GitHub Actions pipelines to streamline community maintenance.
• Governance Automations: Deployed a Sphinx documentation handbook on Read the Docs with automated continuous deployment layers, alongside automated repository governance workflows such as DeepSource and CodeQL for advanced static analysis security testing, strict review assignments via CODEOWNERS, a PR Labeler, a First Interaction welcome workflow, and automated dependency patching via Dependabot.

• High Availability: Established a high-availability backup site infrastructure hosted on Cloudflare Pages.
• Data Layout: Implemented a Google Firebase skeleton system to provide the foundational data architecture for future application scaling.

• Operations Administration: Acted as owner and administrator managing all organizational security policies, Socket Security vulnerability scanning, EditorConfig styling standards, and GitHub configuration matrices.
• Talent Cultivation: Proactively led and mentored a digital team of over 45 code contributors, directly inviting and onboarding 30 core organization members while providing technical training and peer mentorship.

• Footprint Density: Over roughly 2 years with BSC, I visited around 12 different hospitality venues for chess across various days of the week.
• Variants Introduced: To expand crowd engagement, I regularly introduced diverse game variants including 4-Player Chess, Harmegedo (6-Player Chess), Quaternity 4 player chess, Chinese Checkers, and Reversi.
• Themed Hardware: Integrated custom-themed chess sets using Marvel, Sesame Street, and Star Wars Ooshies as specialized game pieces.

• Logistics Delivery: For all 4 primary venues, I personally provided and transported the vast majority of the specialized hardware, including professional LEAP and DGT digital chess clocks.
• Acquisitions: Personally acquired all niche chess variants, board games, and custom Ooshie pieces to scale operations.
• Hardware Donations: Directly donated 3 regulation-size club boards and 2 clocks to Sitar, alongside 2 regulation-size club boards to the Royal Hotel to establish permanent local gaming assets.

• Lending Program: Curated and managed a community lending library by regularly bringing professional chess books to club events.
• Player Development: Personally facilitated an ongoing resource-sharing system to support player development; to this day, more than 10 literature volumes remain out on active loan within the local player network.

Across all positions, my strategic venue activation successfully delivered a consistent pipeline of paying customers directly to these venues during traditionally slower early-to-mid weeknight slots.

• Sub-Branch Link: Royal Hotel (Nundah)
• Timeline: First visited in December 2023, taking over as host in February 2024. Established a highly consistent Thursday night residency (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) spanning 1.5 years.
• Operational Role: Managed as a joint-hosted location for the majority of the residency, but I served as the primary host and clear operational lead.
• Attendance Metric: Peaked at an active turnout of 15 players in a single session.
• Commercial Impact: My strategic activation consistently generated a steady customer pipeline on a traditionally quiet weeknight.

• Sub-Branch Link: Sitar Indian Restaurant (Albion)
• Timeline: Initiated in November 2024. Operated concurrently with the Royal Hotel schedule to establish a twice-weekly hosting circuit (Mondays at Albion from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM; Thursdays at Nundah).
• Operational Role: I independently organized and managed this location for its entire 6-month block.
• Attendance Metric: Drove a peak turnout of 10 active players.
• Commercial Impact: Expanded reliable venue patronage to boost key early-week restaurant sales.

• Sub-Branch Link: Pig 'N' Whistle King George Square (CBD)
• Timeline: Launched in May 2025 immediately following the Sitar residency. Maintained the twice-weekly hosting circuit alongside the ongoing Royal Hotel residency (Mondays at KGS from 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM; Thursdays at Nundah). Completed as a successful 3-month block in winter 2025.
• Operational Role: I organized and ran this location entirely on my own, scaling logistics to transport up to 8 chess sets and 8 clocks in a single evening.
• Attendance Metric: Achieved a peak fluid attendance of 21 unique players moving through the tables across a 3-hour window.
• Commercial Impact: Captured and converted the early-evening Monday CBD workforce into paying patrons.

• Sub-Branch Link: Breakfast Creek Hotel (Albion)
• Timeline: Formed the foundation for Metropolis Retro in October 2025. Successfully executed 27 total events to date, managing and running every session independently. Currently operating in a Thursday night slot (5:30 PM – 7:00 PM).
• Operational Role: Managing and running every single session independently under the independent Metropolis Retro banner.
• Attendance Metric: Drove a peak group attendance of 9 participants on a single night.
• Commercial Impact: This ongoing residency channels a dedicated demographic of strategy and games enthusiasts directly to the venue's premium food and beverage bars.

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