Summary
Annette Drapalski is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building customer-facing web products, currently shaping the Qantas Hotels UI as a frontend specialist using React, Next.js, TypeScript and Tailwind while drawing on backend Clojure and Ruby on Rails experience. She blends a practical operations mindset from a prior Unilever leadership career and a bookkeeping background with formal training at Flatiron School and Hooroo Academy, enabling clear communication between product, engineering and business stakeholders. Comfortable across the stack, she has shipped search and infrastructure improvements with ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform and AWS and routinely uses Sentry and Splunk for real-world troubleshooting. Known for team-building, accountability and a focus on measurable efficiency, she values diversity and fair play and brings an unusual mix of production-floor discipline and modern web craftsmanship to complex engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Developer Information Technology, Full Stack Web Developer Information Technology at Flatiron School
Software Engineering with Ruby on Rails, Software Engineering with Ruby on Rails at Hooroo Academy
Coursework towards a Bachelor of Business and Computing Business and Computing, Coursework towards a Bachelor of Business and Computing Business and Computing at Monash University
English