Summary
Dale O'brien is a Staff Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native systems, Linux virtualization, and data analytics pipelines. He has progressed from embedded and systems roles at Bosch to leadership positions as CIO and Lead Architect, now driving architecture and platform work at Commonwealth Bank. Dale combines hands-on coding in Python, TypeScript and Rust with pragmatic architecture for AWS, microservices, ETL and SQL-backed analytics. He has a strong track record building production-grade deployments using Docker, Postgres/Django, AMQP service buses and enterprise ETL. Known for moving between deep engineering and strategic design, he often surfaces operational improvements that reduce toil while enabling scalable data products. He holds both a BE and M.Eng. from the University of Canterbury and brings a rare blend of embedded-systems roots and modern cloud engineering.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering at University of Canterbury