Dave Sag
Principal Engineer at Nostroma Pty Ltd
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolDave Sag is a Principal Engineer and serial founder with over three decades of web development experience, currently leading PeopleAI initiatives at Atlassian and mentoring teams in blockchain and JavaScript. He blends hands-on expertise in React/Redux/Node.js and Solidity with a history of creating and scaling companies—most notably co-founding Carbon Planet and Virtual Artists, the latter earning multiple awards and early internet acclaim. Dave has repeatedly moved between startups and enterprise, building products from front-end UIs to smart contracts and microservices while also serving as a CEO and board advisor. He brings rare cross-disciplinary strengths—software craft, systems thinking, public speaking and corporate finance—and an enduring curiosity evidenced by his ongoing yacht-mind simulation project, Nostroma.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of AdelaideBSc Maths Computer Science, BSc Maths Computer Science at The University of Queensland
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Github Skills (200)
jsonb10
testing10
swagger10
async-await10
openapi10
jose10
simplify10
middleware10
api10
html10
d110
json10
slack-api10
req10
oracle-db10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
davesag/amqp-delegate
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
A simple, but performant, remote worker system that uses AMQP to coordinate jobs.
Contributions:12 releases, 2 reviews, 383 commits in 3 years 11 months
agentmqttworkeramqpdelegator
davesag/mock-req-res
Aug 2018 - Dec 2022
Extensible mock req / res objects for use in unit tests of Express controller and middleware functions.
Contributions:12 releases, 1 review, 372 commits in 4 years 5 months
controllermiddleware-functionsexpressjsexpress-controllertesting
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