Chad Oliver
Senior Frontend Engineer at Uptick
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolChad Oliver is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Melbourne with 13 years in software and eight years focused as a fullstack developer delivering customer-facing web applications. He currently leads frontend efforts at Uptick after senior roles at PartsTrader Markets and Xero, bringing experience across startup and enterprise environments. Chad excels at solving hard technical problems while also mentoring junior engineers and fostering knowledge sharing within teams. He combines a solid engineering foundation from a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering with practical experience building scalable, maintainable frontends. Colleagues know him for balancing hands-on coding with coaching, helping teams move from prototypes to production-grade releases. Outside work he prioritises continual learning—an approach that keeps his technical craft and mentorship sharp.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BEng, Computer Engineering, Second Class Honors, First Division, Bachelor of Engineering - BEng, Computer Engineering, Second Class Honors, First Division at University of Canterbury
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Github Skills (20)
scenekit9
blender9
rendering7
service-worker7
html6
mongodb6
software-rendering6
jquery6
javascript6
es6-promise6
opengl5
3d5
graphics-programming5
computer-graphics5
webgl4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chadoliver/cosc428-structor
Aug 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
chadoliver/vulcan
Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:94 commits, 1 comment in 2 months
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