Daniel Brain is a Principal Software Engineer based in Melbourne with around 14 years of professional experience building scalable systems across mobile, backend, and cloud platforms. He specialises in Golang, Android, and cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP), and has led significant projects and rewrites at companies including Afterpay/Block, iflix, and Quorbit/UKG. Comfortable moving between hands-on implementation and technical leadership, he frequently mixes backend services (Golang, Node.js) with client-side work (React, Android) and occasional infrastructure tinkering (Terraform). Currently focused on high-performance services at House of Doge, he brings practical experience with event-driven systems (Kinesis/Lambda), GraphQL, and emerging finance tech like TigerBeetle. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic, slightly self-deprecating engineer who prefers shipping robust solutions over polishing profiles.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of IT (Software Development) Information Technology, Diploma of IT (Software Development) Information Technology at Swinburne University of Technology
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Daniel Brain - Principal Software Engineer at House of Doge