Braidon Whatley
Founding Engineer at SuperAPI
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolBraidon Whatley is a founding engineer and entrepreneur based in Melbourne with eight years’ experience building and scaling digital products across startups and enterprise programs. He blends hands-on engineering (notably Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, Go and Postgres) with program and project leadership, having built platforms from scratch for an Australian tourism startup and delivered Salesforce-driven marketing systems for Woolworths at Work. His work spans system design, automation and data-driven solutions—examples include fault-monitoring services, scheduling apps that reclaimed FTE effort, and an algorithm to reconcile purchaser identities from disparate datasets. As Principal at Secus Digital and founder of Karework he pairs technical delivery with strategic advisory for product launches and international expansion. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams (20+ FTE implementations) and collaborating with legal/privacy/security stakeholders, he focuses on pragmatic, auditable solutions that reduce operational overhead. His background in psychology and philosophy informs a user-centered approach to designing systems that solve real business problems.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Philosophy at University of New South Wales
English, French
Github Skills (10)
req10
elixir8
http-client7
lua6
neovim6
tailwindcss6
phoenix-framework5
liveview5
http5
phoenix-liveview3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
braidonw/braidonwhatley
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:10 PRs, 30 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 6 months
supersimplesuper/req_chronicle
Jul 2024 - Dec 2024
A Req plugin that adds request and response logging and persistence
Contributions:1 review, 8 pushes in 5 months
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