Chris Duell
Product Manager at Employment Hero
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolChris Duell is a product leader and founder with 15 years of experience bridging engineering and product across startups and scale-ups, currently managing the Swag Benefits & Money suite at Employment Hero. He previously shaped product strategy and operations at Dixa after selling his long-running startup Elevio to them in 2021, and has founded multiple companies including ReleaseNotes and TwitHawk. Chris combines hands-on development chops—evidenced by backend contributions to open-source Laravel tooling—with CEO-level outcomes, having helped create over $35M in company value through revenue and acquisitions. He is a pragmatic generalist who moves between roadmaps, ops and code, and has a track record of turning small side projects into strategic assets. Based in Melbourne, he mentors founders and keeps one foot in engineering while focusing on product-led growth and cross-functional efficiency. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to build repeatable, low-touch businesses that run with minimal support, freeing him to focus on new product challenges.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bach. CSSE Computer Science, Bach. CSSE Computer Science at Swinburne University of TechnologyFounder, Founder at Startmate
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
laravel10
php10
multidimensional-arrays9
database-migrations9
phpunit9
forloop9
object-oriented-programming9
database-migration9
software-design8
codeigniter6
database6
abstract-class6
laravel-blade6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
VentureCraft/revisionable
Mar 2013 - Sep 2020
Easily create a revision history for any laravel model
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 releases, 15 reviews, 193 commits in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the core functionality of the `revisionable` package, focusing on its backend implementation for tracking model revisions in Laravel. The user's commits included adding features like history retrieval, enabling revision toggling, and refactoring to use Laravel's Eloquent events for managing revisions. They also improved the package by adding a user ID column to the migration script and enhanced the foreign key output with more insightful field values.
artisanlaravel-frameworkphprevision-historylaravel-package
VentureCraft/xero-laravel
Mar 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year
apiphpxerolaravelxero-api
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