Curtis Wahlfeld
Principal Engineer at 10x Banking
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolCurtis Wahlfeld is a pragmatic Principal Engineer based in Sydney with nine years of experience building cloud-native platforms and leading engineering teams. He led the creation of 10x Console, a serverless control plane that cut environment provisioning from six weeks to six hours and delivered hundreds of thousands in annual cost savings through automation and daily infrastructure testing. Curtis combines hands‑on delivery (Terraform, Kubernetes, serverless patterns) with clear engineering principles that prevent over‑engineering and reduce operational overhead. His background spans cloud migrations, platform product management and DevOps consulting for large telcos and banks, giving him a rare blend of technical depth and customer-focused delivery. Colleagues describe him as outcome-focused and adaptive—someone who measures success by tangible improvements to developer velocity and cost.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Diploma Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at TAFE NSWBachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at University of Wollongong
Github Skills (80)
google-cloud-platform10
postgresql10
gcp10
cloud-platform10
google-cloud10
monitoring10
static-analysis10
linux10
kubelet10
data-visualization10
database10
build-time10
mysql10
google10
mongodb10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wahlfeld/valheim-on-aws
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:5 reviews, 34 commits, 91 PRs in 1 year 5 months
wahlfeld/ses-forwarder-terraform
Nov 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
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