Andrew Drake
Founder, Consultant And Freelance CTO at Venture Drake
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolAndrew Drake is a founder and freelance CTO with 11+ years delivering mid-to-large scale web and SaaS systems across fintech, healthcare, e-commerce and digital media. He combines hands-on engineering and architecture with strategic CTO-level guidance, having built commercial asset-finance CRMs, secure AWS medical consent platforms, and high-growth e-commerce solutions that drove a client from thousands to $1M annual online sales. Comfortable operating as an outsourced technology team, he excels at translating stakeholder requirements into pragmatic, budget-aligned product roadmaps and secure production systems. His background spans technical business analysis in investment banking through to bootstrapping a music streaming platform that reached 300k users and 10M+ streams, giving him rare experience across product, marketing and operations. Based in Sydney, he brings Silicon Valley-calibre project management and a knack for turning constrained resources into scalable, revenue-driving technology.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyDiploma, Audio Enginering, Digital Media, Diploma, Audio Enginering, Digital Media at SAE Institute Australia
Github Skills (25)
crm-integration10
crm10
laravel10
laravel-package10
management10
customer10
alpinejs9
php9
daisyui8
livewire7
tailwindcss7
tailwind6
wordpress-plugin6
xero-api5
plugin5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
venturedrake/laravel-encryptable
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:6 releases, 12 commits, 47 pushes in 1 year 10 months
venturedrake/laravel-crm-starter
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
Install and setup a complete Laravel CRM application
Contributions:42 commits, 90 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
crmlaravelphp
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