Daisy Brenecki
Senior Software Developer at Kraken
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDaisy Brenecki is a Senior Software Developer based in Melbourne with 15 years of experience building full‑stack web and mobile applications in Python, Django, React, TypeScript and React Native. She combines strong technical craft with a focus on the social side of software—UX, developer experience, documentation and public speaking—to deliver tools that people actually want to use. At Kraken she drives production systems and at CMV Group she shepherded products from design to deployment while advocating for better processes, testing and tooling. Daisy also led PyCon AU through pandemic-era challenges, coordinating volunteers across cities to keep the conference inclusive and high quality. An active open-source contributor, she has improved developer tooling such as enhancements to the virtualfish project including automatic virtualenv activation and tab completion, reflecting her interest in making developer workflows smoother.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing (Multimedia) [not completed], Bachelor of Computing (Multimedia) [not completed] at University of South AustraliaBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Flinders University
English
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Github Skills (17)
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javascript9
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heroku9
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gitlab6
sql6
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
justinmayer/virtualfish
Jul 2012 - Feb 2020
Fish shell tool for managing Python virtual environments
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:160 commits, 24 PRs, 68 pushes in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Daisy primarily contributed to the development of the virtualfish tool, focusing on enhancing its functionality. Their work involved renaming functions, addressing the handling of `PYTHONHOME`, and modifying the home directory setting. The user added new commands to create, remove, and list virtualenvs, enhancing the tool's usability. Furthermore, they introduced tab completions and added features for automatic virtualenv activation based on directory context.
virtualenvwrapperpythonvirtual-environmentsbashvirtualenv
stbarnabas/django-icybackup
Sep 2012 - Jul 2018
Back your Django database and media directory up to Amazon Glacier or a local file
Contributions:52 commits, 5 PRs, 1 push in 5 years 10 months
pythondjango-frameworkdjangodjango-databaseamazon
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