Open to graduate and junior full-stack roles Brisbane, Australia · 2026

01 / INTRODUCTION

Software that works. Systems that matter.

I’m Jerald Christopher Bucud, a Master of Information Technology candidate focused on full-stack development with Python, Django, React and PostgreSQL, alongside Java and Spring Boot. I am seeking graduate or junior software-development roles in Australia.

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Graduate Software roles sought

Full-stack Career direction

Python + Django Primary backend stack

Expected graduation Master of Information Technology · 2026

PYTHON✦DJANGO✦REST APIs✦POSTGRESQL✦REACT✦JAVASCRIPT✦JUNIT✦GIT✦

02 / SELECTED WORK

Twelve projects across software engineering, AI and cloud systems.

Full-stack applications, neural-network experiments, computer vision and AWS cloud engineering.

FEATURED PROJECT / AI CAPSTONE 01

Collaborative capstone React + Django REST 2026

GradNavi

An AI-powered career-guidance platform that helps students explore career pathways, compare skill gaps, build learning roadmaps, draft application documents and prepare for interviews.

My implementation

Career and readiness scoring, major React student workflows, shared AI contracts and OpenAI integration, interview backend APIs, document-builder interfaces, testing and system integration.

Team contributions

Teammates implemented key authentication and document-generation backends, administration interfaces and the original interview UI. The detailed case study links the actual pull requests.

Python
Django REST
React
PostgreSQL
OpenAI

Collaborative CQUniversity capstone. Attribution follows implementation PRs, including original teammate code subsequently integrated or extended.

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GradNavi student Career Recommendations screen, showing a ranked software engineering match, readiness and AI explanation — Actual GradNavi demo interface. Scores shown are demonstration data, not product-performance results.

FEATURED SYSTEM 02

Pro bono client project Private repository Functional Version 1

Godscent Drive POS

A point-of-sale, inventory and event operations system designed for a small business operating across warehouse and temporary market locations. It connects sales, stock movements, event inventory, payments, corrections, reporting and administration in one internal workspace.

Problem

Maintain reliable sales and inventory records across permanent and temporary locations, including markets where connectivity may be inconsistent.

Approach

A React interface connects to Spring Boot REST services and PostgreSQL. Offline storage and synchronisation are planned as a later implementation phase for market use.

Java 21
Spring Boot
React
PostgreSQL
JWT
Flyway
JUnit

Selected frontend screens are presented with the owners’ permission. Source code, backend implementation, business rules and operational data remain private.

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Godscent Drive POS interface adapted for a tablet portrait screen — Sales, inventory and event operations in a responsive tablet workspace.

MORE PROJECTS

Software, AI and cloud systems

Applied AI case study

YOLOv11 Mango Detection

A documented computer-vision workflow that fine-tunes YOLOv11-n for mango detection, compares controlled experiments, selects the final checkpoint using validation evidence and reports performance on a held-out test set.

Held-out test · 86 images 0.989 mAP@0.5 · 0.704 mAP@0.5:0.95

Python
YOLOv11
Ultralytics
PyTorch
OpenCV
Google Colab

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Software engineering case study

CrisisOps

A JavaFX disaster-response system that began as my individual software-engineering project and was later expanded collaboratively into a MySQL-backed client-server application with role-specific workflows, public alerts, shelters and administration.

Project evolution Individual foundation · Collaborative expansion

Java 17
JavaFX
FXML
MySQL
JDBC
DAO
JUnit
Sockets

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Enterprise Java case study

SmartTech E-Business System

A collaborative three-tier Jakarta EE operations system for authenticated account access, customer records, tablet and smartwatch inventory, and stock-aware order processing. My primary contribution focused on the Jakarta Faces presentation layer, authentication integration and interface redesign.

Architecture Jakarta Faces · EJB · JPA · MySQL

Java 11
Jakarta EE 10
JSF
EJB
JPA
MySQL
GlassFish

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Open-source developer tooling

CodingSensei

A local-first VS Code extension for project-aware learning and deterministic code intelligence. Version 0.4.0 includes persistent project indexing and framework detection; full Assist and Project Chat capabilities remain in development.

Current releasev0.4.0 · Persistent project intelligence

TypeScript
VS Code API
Node.js
JavaScript
Python
Java

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Neural-network NLP

BBC News Classification

Compared TF-IDF and Word2Vec representations with multilayer perceptrons on a five-category BBC News dataset. The TF-IDF model achieved 97.18% accuracy on 426 held-out test articles.

Held-out test accuracy97.18% · TF-IDF + MLP

Python
scikit-learn
NLTK
Word2Vec
MLP

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Deep neural networks & analysis

Neural Network Analysis

Coursework combining dense neural-network regression for housing prices, olive-oil classification, PCA and K-means. Included systematic architecture experiments and recorded evaluation results.

Recorded olive-oil classification99.2% accuracy · 125 samples

Python
TensorFlow
Keras
PCA
K-means

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Computer vision / deep learning

CNN Age & Gender Estimation

Built and evaluated convolutional models using the UTKFace dataset, comparing original and augmented training. The augmented model recorded 6.871-year validation age MAE.

Validation age MAE6.871 years · Augmented CNN

Python
TensorFlow
Keras
CNN
UTKFace

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Time-series deep learning

LSTM Mining Stock Forecasts

Compared 5-day and 10-day lookbacks for Australian mining share prices across 36 LSTM tuning runs, evaluating recursive 50-day forecasts against a last-price baseline.

Experimental evaluationLSTM beat baseline for 2 of 3 stocks

Python
TensorFlow
LSTM
Time Series

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Collaborative cloud computing

AWS IoT Temperature Monitoring

Group AWS monitoring project featuring Python simulated sensor readings sent securely through AWS IoT Core. My documented work covered IoT ingestion and testing; Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS and CloudWatch formed the wider group design.

Documented personal contributionPython MQTT simulator · AWS IoT Core

Python
AWS IoT Core
MQTT
AWS Lambda
DynamoDB

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Exploratory data analysis

Brisbane House Price Analysis

Analysed 110 property records across five Brisbane suburbs, generated price-distribution and suburb-demand charts, and exported reproducible descriptive statistics.

Data analysis110 properties · 4 visualisations

Python
pandas
NumPy
Matplotlib

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03 / PROFILE

Practical software development built on technical experience.

I am completing a Master of Information Technology at CQUniversity, majoring in Software Design and Development with a minor in Artificial Intelligence.

Before moving into software development, I completed a Bachelor of Science in Aircraft Maintenance Technology and worked in IT support and digital services. That background strengthened my troubleshooting, documentation and attention to reliability—skills I now apply to Python/Django and Java/Spring full-stack projects.

I now apply that background to full-stack projects involving REST APIs, relational databases, authentication, reporting and responsive interfaces. My current focus is Python, Django REST Framework, React and PostgreSQL, supported by experience with Java, Spring Boot and computer vision.

Based in Brisbane, Queensland

Target roles Graduate or Junior Full-stack Developer

Primary focus Python/Django Full-stack Development

Primary stack Python · Django · React · PostgreSQL

Additional experience Java · Spring Boot · Computer Vision

Education Master of Information Technology candidate

04 / EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

Technical experience and postgraduate IT study.

IT support, web projects and formal study provide the foundation for my move into software development.

2011–15

Undergraduate degree

BSc Aircraft Maintenance Technology · Flight School International

Developed disciplined approaches to inspection, fault diagnosis, technical documentation and safety-conscious decision-making.

2019–25

Professional experience

IT Specialist · ONB Enterprises

Provided technical support, troubleshooting and systems assistance while helping maintain reliable day-to-day digital operations and communicating technical information to users.

2020–25

Digital services and web projects

JCYB Digital Agency

Developed websites and digital products for small-business and personal projects, with a focus on requirements, usability and delivery for real users.

2025–26

Postgraduate study

Master of Information Technology · CQUniversity

Software Design and Development major with an Artificial Intelligence minor, covering software engineering, application development, databases, AI and project delivery.

05 / TECHNICAL SKILLS

Full-stack development with Python, Django and React.

Backend, frontend and delivery tools used across client and academic software projects.

Primary stack PYTHON
DJANGO
REACT

Backend Development

Python · Django · Django REST Framework · PostgreSQL · Java · Spring Boot · REST APIs

Frontend Development

React · JavaScript · HTML · CSS

Engineering & Delivery

Git · Maven · GitHub Actions · Testing

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

Formal education and professional development

I am completing a Master of Information Technology, supported by a Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate in Information Technology with Distinction. My earlier aircraft-maintenance degree adds a practical foundation in troubleshooting, documentation and reliability.

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07 / CONTACT

Let’s build useful software.

I am seeking graduate and junior full-stack development opportunities in Australia. For roles, project discussions or professional enquiries, contact me by email or LinkedIn.

Email jerald@jeraldbucud.com ↗ LinkedIn View professional profile ↗ GitHub Explore repositories ↗

Location Brisbane, Queensland AU