Brent Mckendrick
Distinguished Engineer at Commonwealth Bank
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolBrent Mckendrick is a Distinguished Engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling payment and checkout systems for major enterprises and platforms. Currently partnering with the CIO at Commonwealth Bank to uplift engineering culture and platforms, he previously led Uber’s Checkout organization, driving platformization and a Hosted Checkout that added $1B in gross volume in its first year. His background spans hands-on architecture and leadership roles—from CTO and VP engineering at Zip to senior engineering posts—focused on cloud-native payments, real-time disbursements, and high-throughput API platforms. An active open-source creator (author of funcy, GraphDiff, and xtform), he blends practical tooling with strategic delivery and has even taken career sabbaticals to sail across the Caribbean and Europe, reflecting a taste for adventurous problem-solving.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Christian Community High SchoolThe University of Sydney
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Github Skills (124)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
refactorthis/xtform
Dec 2013 - Apr 2015
AngularJS form validation extensions.
Contributions:2 releases, 21 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 4 months
validationjavascriptextensionsangularjsangular
zzzprojects/GraphDiff
Dec 2012 - Jun 2016
Entity Framework graph merge extension method
Contributions:58 commits, 3 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 6 months
entitymethodextension-methodgraph-frameworkmerge
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