Dave Barton
Lead Cybersecurity Architect at Jemena
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Barton is a seasoned cybersecurity and infrastructure leader with 20+ years of hands-on experience and seven years focused on senior security architecture roles across startups and enterprises. Currently Lead Cybersecurity Architect at Jemena, he previously led startup security solution architecture for AWS in APJ, helping scale security for high-growth cloud-native companies. He blends practical systems engineering roots—from early Sun and infrastructure roles to directing global IT at Comodo—with strategic security partnership and solution design at AWS and Babylon Health. An active contributor to open-source developer tooling, he has improved documentation and examples for the popular Crawlee web-scraping library, reflecting a developer-first approach to security. Based in Sydney, Dave is known for translating complex compliance and cloud risk into pragmatic, operational controls that teams can actually implement.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Sheffield Hallam University
Github Skills (16)
javascript10
puppeteer10
nodejs10
webscraping10
crawling10
chromeless9
chrome9
headless-browser9
documentation9
api8
automations8
automation8
apidoc8
typescript-types7
typescript7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apify/crawlee
Jul 2018 - May 2021
Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:10 reviews, 36 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dave's commits primarily involve updating and refining example code within the `crawlee` repository. These updates focus on illustrating how to use various crawlee features, including API calls, Puppeteer integration, proxy usage, and interaction with key-value stores. The changes reflect a back-end focus, demonstrating crawlee's functionality and capabilities. In addition, the user edited documentation by adjusting text and adding text related to API documentation.
web-crawlercrawlersscrapingcrawlingrpa
davidjohnbarton/instagram-scraper
May 2019 - Feb 2022
Scraper all posts from instagram profile/hashtag/location
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 9 months
instagram-profilepythonscrapelocationposts
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