I am an Associate Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. I completed my PhD in programming languages in 2007 and worked as a lecturer/professor at Victoria University of Wellington until 2022. During my studies, I took short breaks to work as a Visiting Researcher at Purdue University and a Software Engineer at two Wellington start-ups. I spent 2013 on a sabbatical at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. I spent the winter of 2019/2020 on a sabbatical at Kyoto University in Japan.