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Experience

2026 - present, Melbourne, Australia

Founder & Lead iOS Engineer at Blossom Blaze

2024-2025, Copenhagen, Denmark (Remote)

PR & Marketing Coordinator at Throughline Games

2021-2024, New York City, USA (Remote)

iOS Software Engineer at Hopscotch Technologies

2018-2020, Remote

Python Developer at Sky Music

Education

2020, Melbourne, Australia (Partial)

Diploma in Screen & Media (Game Design) at Academy of Interactive Entertainment

2017, Sydney, Australia

National Computer Science School (Computational Linguistics) at University of Sydney

2014-2016, Online

iOS App Development at Code With Chris

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Blossom Blaze

Studio developing Noteworthy: an interactive 3D highly-aesthetic journalling & planner app, and couture stationery sets.

Hopscotch

NYC tech startup, developing a fun & intuitive drag-and-drop programming app that lets kids explore the powerful ideas of computing while making real software.

Throughline Games

Danish indie game studio, creating cinematic story-driven adventure games featuring stunning hand-drawn Ghibli-esque animation.

Creativity, Inc

From Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar, comes an incisive book about creativity in business.

The Good Creative

Principles and strategies that will allow us to tap into our creative potential in our work lives, and in our personal lives.

Getting Real

From Basecamp creator, a good book which highlights the traditional rubbish and points out how to overcome them

The Power of Habit

The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive.

Hooked

A four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior

Coding Blocks for Kids

I implemented fun trail drawing blocks in the Hopscotch app to let kids explore geometry ala Seymour Papert's LOGO.

Almanac Help Tip

At Hopscotch, we added a help tip that shows a handy description of each coding block right when you need it.

Scenes Editor Workflow

We redesigned the scenes creation flow in Hopscotch to let users easily make advanced multi-level games and projects.

Onboarding Revamp

We increased subscription conversion rates by more than 20% by revamping our onboarding flow in the Hopscotch app.

Major Undo/Redo Feature

I helped implement a significant refactor of our coding editor to accommodate a robust undo/redo system in Hopscotch, which lets kids freely explore alternative ideas while coding.

Sky Music Sheet Maker

An open-source fan project for the game Sky: Children of the Light & the EASYPLAY 1s music keyboard. It lets players generate easy-to-read visual music sheets in the style of these 5x3 grids.

"I've worked with Tracey for many years. She's extremely multitalented, and everything she does, she does with her full heart. Her technical skills and creativity are top notch; she is an asset to every community she joins."

Samantha John, Cofounder of Hopscotch, featured in 30 Women under 30 by BBC & Elle

"Tracey’s passion for the Hopscotch community was our guiding light. Her own deep experience with the product and constant community consultation helped us immeasurably and resulted in a better product. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Tracey."

Andrew Tetlaw, Senior iOS Engineer & Writer at KodeCo

"I've had the pleasure of working with Tracey, who is a skilled and independent engineer. She is eager to learn from other engineers and picks up new skills quickly, making her a reliable and adaptable addition to any team."

Yuanyuan Zhao, Product Manager at Capital One and Hopscotch Technologies

I will not make boring software.

"I will not make any more boring software. I will not make any more boring software." Via !Boring & Andy Allen

Stop drawing dead fish.

Via Bret Victor

Go Bespoke

"If your goal is to reach as many as possible… go cross-platform.
But if your goal is to make the best software possible… focus on one. Anything else is compromised." — Andy Allen

Messaging-Based Object-Oriented Systems

The Art of the Meta-Object Protocol. Publish and subscribe. Wish and claim.

Climb the ladder of abstraction

Bret Victor

Everything is live

Gracefully adjusts to any screen while maintaining its calm aesthetic

A change of perspective is worth 80 IQ Points

Via Alan Kay. The right metaphor can change everything

"Learn everything, and then forget it except for the perfume" - Alan Kay

"This will allow you to think your own thoughts, and when you come up with an interesting idea, it will first be somewhat influenced by good ideas in the past, and it will also have perfume that will help you find what was done on this idea in the past."

Do systems designs without programming them.

"For example, try to take your music game and redo it without code to see what it should look like at run time and then how it might have been programmed. I do this all the time. Sometimes a good idea will appear."

The medium is the message

Kill math

Humane Representation of Thought

Dynamic & Interactive

Be a force for good in society

Think about the bigger picture

Design the test first and have a plan for failure.

Understand the problem before trying to find a solution.

Design for fun. Know your users.

Rich with affordances

Simplicity, Intuitiveness and Elegance

Modeless Editing

What You See Is What You Get

People who are serious about software should make their own hardware.

Lego Set - All Available Options are Visible

!Camera

Snap the most beautiful, professional photos with (Not Boring) Camera.

Arc

A groundbreaking rethink of the browser, by The Browser Company of New York.

Ghost

Open-source blogging software with gorgeous, stylish themes.

Let's get in touch!

✉️ tracey@traceyle.me

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