Summary
Bradley Dean is a Senior Software Engineer based in Victoria, Australia, with 17 years of professional experience and over 20 years of hands-on work across data gathering, analytics, PII/GDPR safety, and AI/agentic workflows. He specializes in integrating open-source technologies into large-scale production systems, with deep practical expertise in Perl, Python, service monitoring, and high-availability provisioning. At Home.co.uk he has driven long-term engineering efforts, pairing project planning and management with practical software delivery. His background spans academia, enterprise, and niche operational roles—from web applications at the University of Melbourne to systems administration at Ford—giving him a broad systems perspective. Notably, he combines engineering with operational stewardship informed by running a cattle stud for 15 years, which sharpened his logistical and resource-management instincts. Bradley brings a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to building reliable, auditable systems that handle sensitive data at scale.
18 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne