Craig Read
Software Engineer at Redbubble
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Read is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of professional experience and a track record of evolving alongside technology—from Delphi and Oracle-era systems to modern stacks like Elixir, Ruby, Scala, Swift, Go and GraphQL. Based in Melbourne, he blends strong hands-on coding with people skills, having contributed to product-focused teams at Redbubble and led application development and legacy modernization efforts across finance and retail. He thrives on creating software that improves people’s lives and is comfortable working across databases, CI pipelines and multiple operating systems. Notably, his career shows a pattern of taking on technical debt and legacy platforms (Delphi, Java 1.6) and steadily migrating them toward contemporary architectures. Colleagues know him as a curious learner who pairs practical engineering with a business-aware mindset.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate IV in Business, Business, Certificate IV in Business, Business at Box Hill InstituteNovell Certified Netware Engineer, Network Engineering, Novell Certified Netware Engineer, Network Engineering at ComTechMVS Programming, System Design and Analysis, Systems Analysis and Computer Programming, MVS Programming, System Design and Analysis, Systems Analysis and Computer Programming at Data Task Pty. Ltd.
Github Skills (112)
linguist9
api9
android-application9
service-provider9
rest-api8
api-client8
interaction8
tcp8
api-platform7
ruby-on-rails7
relay7
udp7
logstash7
melonjs7
json7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
redbubble/kumo_keisei_gem
Sep 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 release, 9 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 1 month
cloudterraformazureawscloudformation
RHoKAustralia/melb-timor-leste
May 2015 - Sep 2017
Timor Leste Linguistic project - RHoK Melbourne
Contributions:28 commits, 22 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 4 months
linguisticmelbourne
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