Brendon Body
Senior Software Engineer at Block
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolBrendon Body is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building microservices and scalable systems at Block/CashApp, primarily using Kotlin, Java, and Go. He combines backend expertise with a full-stack background spanning Ruby on Rails, Python, NodeJS and front-end work from roles at Westpac and Hanes Brands. Based in Queensland, Australia, he pairs hands-on engineering with teaching experience as a Software Engineer Instructor and a habit of lifelong learning—evidenced by advanced coursework at Stanford (cybersecurity), DeepLearning.AI and MIT. He focuses on reliability and security in cloud-native AWS environments and is actively strengthening his cybersecurity skill set to complement his production engineering work. Outside code, he’s a builder at heart—both in software and with his hands—and maintains multiple personal repositories for learning and training. While not actively looking, he welcomes connections around microservices, security, and engineering practice.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Short Course, Short Course at Groupwork CentreThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)Course, Course at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDeepLearning.AIProfessional Certificate, Professional Certificate at University of South AustraliaConfucius Study Tour, Confucius Study Tour at Tianjin UniversityExchange Student, Exchange Student at Zhejiang UniversityCourse, Course at General AssemblyBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at The University of QueenslandAdvanced Certificate, Advanced Certificate at Stanford University
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Github Skills (68)
jquery-plugin10
javascript10
jquery10
resume10
multiline10
static-site-generator10
github-pages10
tailwindcss10
counter10
jsonresume10
responsive10
jquery-terminal10
jekyll10
utility10
jekyll-theme10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bbody-old/MultilineJavaScriptConverter
Jun 2016 - Apr 2021
Multiline JavaScript string converter
Contributions:190 commits, 36 PRs, 325 pushes in 4 years 11 months
javascriptmultilineutilitysafestring-formatter
bbody-old/fit-on-a-floppy
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
A website for getting size of a website and letting you know how many floppies it will fit on
Contributions:68 commits, 7 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 1 month
serverless-applicationscssjavascriptpyodidefit
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