Dave Hawkey
Director at Techpros IT
Australia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDave Hawkey is a technology leader with 14 years of experience delivering IT and project solutions across mining, construction and telecoms, now steering Techpros IT as Director to provide resilient managed services for remote, mission-critical operations. He combines hands-on project and site mobilisation experience—managing deployments for up to 500 users in harsh Australian mine sites—with a background in application delivery and UC/mobility from roles at Bechtel and iiNet. A Microsoft Partner-focused MSP, he blends strategic vendor relationships and cloud-first architectures with practical service governance (Prince2, ITIL) to minimise downtime and secure distributed environments. Dave also contributes to open-source Android development (notably enhancements to the Trebuchet launcher), reflecting a developer mindset that informs his infrastructure and user-focused solutions.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
A+, Hardware and Software, A+, Hardware and Software at CompTiaPrince2 Practitioner, Project Management, Practitioner, Prince2 Practitioner, Project Management, Practitioner at APMGUniversity of South Africa
Github Skills (3)
android-development10
java10
javas10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CyanogenMod/android_packages_apps_Trebuchet
Sep 2013 - Jun 2015
Trebuchet Launcher
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:23 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Dave contributed significantly to the Trebuchet Launcher, focusing on Android-specific code. Their work included implementing features to dynamically add and remove screens, specifically addressing custom content. Further modifications involved adjusting UI elements such as the search bar and page indicators to align with the display and state changes within the launcher. Additionally, they addressed a potential NullPointerException within the launcher, ensuring stability.
linuxlauncher
laxathom/google-tv-pairing-protocol
May 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.