Dave Allie
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer at Visibuild
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDave Allie is a pragmatic technology leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO of Visibuild, with 11 years of experience building and operating web-scale SaaS systems. He blends a strong academic foundation in mathematics and computer science with hands-on engineering across Ruby on Rails, React/TypeScript, JVM languages and AWS-driven DevOps. Previously a SDE at Amazon and CTO/engineer at Tanda, he has shipped products used by hundreds of thousands of users and led teams through growth and operational maturity. An ICPC South-Pacific finalist turned maintainer of production-grade tooling, he contributes performance and fetch-optimization fixes to notable open-source projects like danger/danger. Based in Melbourne, he pairs systems-level thinking with pragmatic shipping discipline, often focusing on incremental efficiencies that pay off at scale.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics with Distinction/Bachelor of Information Technology with Distinction Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics with Distinction/Bachelor of Information Technology with Distinction Computer Science at Queensland University of TechnologyHigh School, High School at St. Joseph's College Gregory Terrace
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Github Skills (12)
code-review10
git10
ruby10
cil9
automation9
automations9
gitlab8
github8
refactor7
bitbucket7
danger7
refactoring7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
danger/danger
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
🚫 Stop saying "you forgot to …" in code review (in Ruby)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Dave's contributions primarily focused on improving the `danger/danger` repository's internal workings. They addressed issues related to fetching git references and optimizing the process. They modified code to incorporate incremental branch fetching to enhance efficiency. Further, they refactored and cleaned up the `ensure_commitish_exists!` method and its related components.
stopbitbucketgitlabrubyin-review
daveallie/benchmark_to_js
Mar 2016 - Nov 2021
Rails gem to benchmarks content in views and log times to JS console.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
consolerailstimesrubybenchmarks
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