Brodie Thiesfield

Sunshine Coast Regional, Queensland, Australia

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Brodie Thiesfield is a seasoned technologist-turned-entrepreneur with 19 years of experience building resilient software and eight years running and growing boutique holiday resorts on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. He progressed from programmer to Web Technologies Team Manager in international settings (Australia, Italy, Germany, Japan), leading teams that delivered translation and real-time telecom-grade systems for clients like Docomo, Yahoo! Japan and Rakuten. As a hands-on owner-manager he doubled revenue and occupancy at Watermark Resort Caloundra and navigated complex refurbishments while maintaining strong guest satisfaction. Technically, he remains an active C++ contributor—driving many releases of the SimpleIni library with security fixes, Unicode and multiline support, and expanded value APIs—demonstrating attention to stability and pragmatic tooling. Comfortable switching between deep engineering and end-to-end business leadership, he combines product-focused technical judgement with proven operational and people-management skills. Now based on the Sunshine Coast, he is seeking the next challenge that blends his software craftsmanship with real-world business ownership experience.

19 years of coding experience

22 years of employment as a software developer

Modern Asian Studies, Modern Asian Studies at Griffith University

Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at Queensland University of Technology

English, Japanese

Github Skills (6)

c-language10

cprogramming-language10

utf9

unicode9

refactor7

refactoring7

Programming languages (3)

C++JavaScriptPHP

Github contributions (5)

brofield/simpleini

Jan 2007 - Aug 2022

Cross-platform C++ library providing a simple API to read and write INI-style configuration files

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 109 commits in 15 years 9 months

Contributions summary:Brodie implemented version 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.8.1, 4.8.2, 4.9, 4.9.1, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, 4.18 and 4.19 of the SimpleIni library, including fixes for compile breaks on gcc and for security issues, as well as adding new functions such as GetBoolValue, GetLongValue, SetBoolValue, SetLongValue and GetDoubleValue/SetDoubleValue. These changes included the addition of test scripts, unicode, and multiline handling. The user also refactored the code by adding more features such as quotes handling.

apisource-portcppasciic-library

brofield/gegg

Sep 2017 - Mar 2022

Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 7 pushes in 4 years 7 months

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