Dave Burt
Technical Lead at BIG4 Holiday Parks of Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Burt is a Melbourne-based technical lead and full-stack developer with 16 years of professional experience and two decades of delivering web applications across energy, medical, financial services and travel sectors. He combines hands-on engineering, cloud cost and architecture optimisation—recently reducing AWS footprint and bill by 20% and pruning millions of lines of legacy code—with AI thought leadership and team leadership at enterprise scale. His background spans roles from analyst/programmer and agency owner to CTO and software architect, giving him a rare blend of operational, executive and delivery perspective. An active contributor to the Ruby/Rails ecosystem, he improved CSV encoding and UI feedback in the popular RailsAdmin project, showing attention to both robustness and user experience. Practical, outcome-focused and curious, he excels at simplifying complex systems and turning technical debt into business value.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Swinburne University of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
utf10
rails10
ruby10
activerecord10
csv10
cordova9
rspec9
mysql8
bootstrap7
bootstra7
html6
asset-pipeline6
ruby-on-rails6
xcode6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
railsadminteam/rails_admin
Apr 2015 - May 2015
RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Dave focused on improving the RailsAdmin application's CSV export functionality, specifically addressing encoding issues related to MySQL's 'utf8mb4' encoding. They modified the `CSVConverter` class and added tests to ensure proper handling of different encodings, including UTF-8 with BOM. Furthermore, the user updated the application's UI by mapping flash messages (notice and alert) to Bootstrap alert styles for improved visual feedback. They also simplified the handling of "info" flash messages by using the :notice key.
railsrails-enginerailsadminrubyactivemodel
dburt/duff_graded_gnt
Apr 2016 - Jun 2021
Graded GNT based on Duff's Elements of New Testament Greek
Contributions:37 commits, 3 PRs, 32 pushes in 5 years 2 months
tupleelementstestamentabaqusgnt
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