Dale Anderson
Founder at ST8VRT
Otago, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDale Anderson is a founder and seasoned software leader from Otago, New Zealand, with 12 years of professional experience building embedded and application-level systems. He blends hands-on expertise in Swift, Kotlin, C#, JavaScript and robust API design (REST/JSON/XML) with deep knowledge of embedded Linux and cross-compiler environments. His career spans technical leadership roles including CTO and Head of Architecture, where he translated complex product requirements into maintainable architectures and shipped production mobile/cloud integrations. Known for moving fluidly between low-level embedded constraints and higher-level application architecture, he brings a pragmatic engineering style that prioritizes shipping reliable, testable systems. Outside of titles, he has a background in design from the Design and Arts College of NZ, which informs a user-aware approach to technical decisions. Now leading ST8VRT, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a track record of guiding teams through both legacy modernization and new product delivery.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Higher National Diploma Interior Design, Higher National Diploma Interior Design at Design and Arts College of NZ
Github Skills (29)
http-server10
http-client10
pooling10
ktor8
kotlin7
rust6
logic6
dom6
failover6
inheritance6
postgresql6
perl5
halo5
garmin5
staging5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
projectamin/samin
Aug 2020 - Mar 2025
Swift Amin implementation.
Contributions:2 PRs, 73 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 6 months
swift
projectamin/camin
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
C implementation of amin www.projectamin.org , intending to follow current Perl OO / inheritance patterns as much as possible.
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 8 months
halofollowinheritancepatternsperl
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