Summary
Brendan Hayward is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing full-stack systems, data pipelines and analytics, currently building blast analytics at Orica with frequent Azure/Docker releases. He blends data science, bioinformatics and practical system architecture—comfortable from React/TypeScript frontends and Plotly visualisations to Python scientific stacks and ML models. Brendan has led digital and agile transformations, worked as a solutions architect for municipal projects, and helped researchers deploy AI at university scale. His background spans marketing systems, cloud migrations and production data tooling, giving him a knack for turning messy datasets into clear, actionable UIs. Outside work he volunteers on biotech and ML projects and brings an unexpected creative side from interests in music and food that inform a user-focused approach.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, HSC at John Wycliffe
Bachelor of Science (Biotechnology), Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science (Biotechnology), Biotechnology at University of Wollongong
Master of Data Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Master of Data Science, Mathematics and Statistics at James Cook University
T.E.C Cert IV, Business Management, T.E.C Cert IV, Business Management at 2009 Illawarra