Charles Blaxland
CTO at Jacobi
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolCharles Blaxland is a seasoned CTO with over 17 years of hands-on experience building and leading engineering teams to deliver scalable, production-grade systems across fintech, telecommunications, healthcare and travel. He combines full-stack development, cloud-native architecture (notably automated AWS infrastructure and CI/CD), big data and DevOps expertise with strong agile/lean coaching to shorten delivery cycles from inception to production. His track record includes architecting an airline booking engine that scaled globally, cutting a financial risk model’s runtime from months to hours on Hadoop in AWS, and enabling zero-downtime deployments for telecom services. A practical technologist and advocate for autonomous, creative teams, he also contributes to open-source tooling—improving the widely used html-webpack-plugin—and brings uncommon on-the-ground leadership experience from building and scaling distributed teams internationally. Outside work he’s tackled extreme challenges like a multi-night ascent of El Capitan, reflecting resilience and patience he brings to complex engineering problems.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Dalby State High SchoolUNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (5)
javascript10
webpacker10
webpack10
html9
showdown6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jantimon/html-webpack-plugin
Aug 2014 - May 2015
Simplifies creation of HTML files to serve your webpack bundles
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 9 PRs, 11 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the `html-webpack-plugin`. They focused on improving its functionality by implementing features such as generating HTML files with multiple entry points, allowing user-defined HTML templates, and integrating with source maps. Their work included modifications to the plugin's core logic, template handling, and test suite to ensure proper functionality and compatibility. They also updated the plugin to support webpack's publicPath configuration and handle subdirectories in output bundles.
webpack-pluginmanifesthtml-webpack-pluginservewebpack4
ampedandwired/rancher-reaper
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 10 months
rancherhostsdockeraws
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