Alister Cordiner
Data Engineer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlister Cordiner is a data engineer and seasoned software leader based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building data platforms and product-grade systems across startups and research organisations. He’s currently helping scale data engineering at Canva after leading teams that processed billions in health claims and delivered market‑leading financial research products. Comfortable as an individual contributor, tech lead, scrum master and product owner, he blends hands‑on implementation with people leadership and customer-driven agile practice. His background as a technical co-founder and early startup hire means he brings pragmatic product sense—having shipped core IP like distributed camera-based analytics and a content marketplace—alongside formal research training from the University of Wollongong.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Research, MSc, Research at University of WollongongBE (Hons) DipEngPrac, CSE major, BE (Hons) DipEngPrac, CSE major at University of Technology Sydney
Github Skills (95)
analyticsjs10
segment10
javascript9
scheduler9
dynamodb9
python9
timer9
monorepo8
automation8
scrapy8
integrations8
machine-learning8
django-project8
macros8
apache8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
acordiner/django-ignorebots
Feb 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:31 PRs, 529 pushes, 918 branches in 5 years 10 months
acordiner/acordiner.github.io
Sep 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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