Charlie Brooking
Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolCharlie Brooking is a Principal Consultant with over 17 years of experience designing and delivering software across commercial, government, and research sectors from Queensland, Australia. He blends hands-on engineering—from C++ and Java systems to WebGL visualisations and modern web stacks—with technology strategy and leadership of teams up to 20 developers. His background includes research-driven projects at The University of Queensland (3D Water Atlas, OzTrack, CoralWatch) and enterprise systems at Jeppesen, giving him a rare mix of scientific-domain empathy and production-grade engineering rigor. Charlie focuses on aligning architecture with organisational capability and on bootstrapping teams for immediate delivery while embedding practices for continual learning. He is comfortable across the full stack and infrastructure layers, and has a strong track record of turning complex domain problems into pragmatic, maintainable systems. A University Medal graduate in Software Engineering, he brings both deep technical breadth and a mentorship mindset to enable long-term engineering resilience.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software, Honours Class I and University Medal, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software, Honours Class I and University Medal at The University of Queensland
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Github Skills (48)
emr10
uploading10
hospital-management-system10
web-application10
django10
angularjs10
jersey9
python9
mhealth9
error-handling9
react9
frontend9
angular8
typescript8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brookingcharlie/react-chai-enzyme-demo
Apr 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
brookingcharlie/kafka-beginners-course
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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