Dan Sketcher
Board Member at Australian Powerlifting Alliance
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolDan Sketcher is a pragmatic payments executive with 16 years of experience designing and scaling payment products and platforms across Australia and the APAC region. He has led product and strategy at Global Payments and Mastercard, co-founded and built a PCI‑compliant payments tech business from the ground up, and routinely translates complex regulatory and technical constraints into commercial outcomes. Known for combining hands-on technical fluency (microservices, APIs, Ruby on Rails, distributed systems) with board‑level strategy, he excels at team development and operational delivery. Based in Queensland, he also advises and consults on aggregation, payment facilitation and real‑time rails like NPP PayID, bringing a rare mix of executional grit and product vision.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Brisbane Boys' CollegeBachelor of Information Technology (Hons) Database Technologies Distributed Systems, Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons) Database Technologies Distributed Systems at The University of Queensland
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
gpgme10
gnupg8
passenger6
fedora6
ruby-on-rails6
ruby5
capistrano5
rails3
logging2
formatting2
logger2
structured-logging1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dansketcher/filter_fu
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Filter ActiveRecord models using named_scopes
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
scopesrailshandlersrubyactiverecord-models
dansketcher/Credit-Card-NFC-Reader
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
A Java library used to read and extract data from NFC EMV credit cards (Android/PCSC).
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
creditjava-librarycredit-cardemvandroid
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