Grant Dong

Hi there! My name is Grant. I'm a software engineer — which means I solve problems. Not the big problems like 'What makes a life well-lived?' or 'How do I stop myself from scrolling reels?' Now those are obviously important issues — they just sit outside of my profession. I solve practical problems, the kind that involve digging through complex systems to find what broke, communicating it clearly to stakeholders, and then building to avoid potential failures cropping up.

I've recently completed a Bachelor of Advanced Computing & Bachelor of Commerce at The University of Sydney. Throughout my studies, unit selection has been guided predominantly by my thirst for new and challenging material. On the comp-sci side, I placed a focus on developing skills surrounding machine learning, cybersecurity and cloud computing. These are supported on the commerce side by corporate finance and investment management knowledge.

In my free time at home, I typically try to work on side-projects (currently a long-term video game project) and also love actively searching for new music. If given the choice, I'd really rather be outdoors — fishing, hiking, practising photography, really anything that gets me away from the internet and grounded in the real world.

Projects

• 2026

  3D Hexagonal Procedural Generation

  Procedural dungeon generation sitting on a hexagonal grid. Built to test and explore various dungeon generation algorithms for world-gen in my WIP video game.

  • C#
  • Unity
  • Procedural Gen
• 2024

  rpicam-mjpeg

  Raspberry Pi camera driver reviving and extending the previously deprecated features from RaspiMJPEG, written against V4L2 and the libcamera stack.

  • C++
  • Linux
  • V4L2
  • libcamera

Photography

Photography for me is primarily a hobby through which I can chronicle significant periods of my life — where I've been, who I was there with, and what else was around us. Carrying around a camera pushes me to notice the small details of everything happening around me.

Resume

I'm a recent Computer Science and Commerce graduate from The University of Sydney, currently searching for graduate or junior software engineering or finance-adjacent roles where I can kickstart my career whilst learning the ins and outs of the industry.