Caleb Black
Software Engineer at Fierce Ventures
Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolCaleb Black is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience building and deploying production Clojure web applications and AWS-based services using Terraform, Docker, and CI pipelines. He thrives on functional programming and has applied those principles across diverse stacks including JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Java, C#, Python and React, enabling rapid cross-technology problem solving. At Fierce Ventures he architects serverless systems with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and Cognito while contributing to mobile and frontend projects with Re-frame and React Native. His background spans startups and enterprise environments—from fintech APIs and ASP.NET Core backends to embedded DevOps workflows—so he’s comfortable owning features from schema to UI and deployment. Based in Townsville, Australia and currently studying IT at James Cook University, Caleb pairs hands-on coding with a continual-learning mindset that surfaces practical, well-automated solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
(Currently Studying) Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology, (Currently Studying) Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at James Cook University
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Github Skills (142)
browser10
cli10
shadow-cljs10
luminus10
eql10
amazon10
nextjs10
react10
javascript9
headless-browser9
leiningen9
api9
babashka9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
CalebMacdonaldBlack/kaidens-caravans
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:28 PRs, 73 pushes, 28 branches in 2 months
cmslaraveladvertisingcaravan
CalebMacdonaldBlack/cp1406-16-28
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 93 pushes, 30 branches in 1 month
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