David Allen
Owner at DAProperties
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Allen is an experienced property investment and development professional with over 30 years of experience founding and leading DA Properties, where he advises not-for-profits, private families and co-invests in projects that prioritise community and environmental outcomes. A Certified Fund Manager and Certified Property Practitioner, he brings formal AFSL responsibility and deep process-driven expertise in valuation, finance and bespoke development frameworks. His background combines a Bachelor in Property Resource Management and an MBA in Finance, enabling him to bridge technical valuation rigour with strategic capital structuring. David is also a coach who helps others navigate development projects, emphasising that no property is one-size-fits-all and that tailored approaches yield better stakeholder outcomes. Outside work he is an outdoors enthusiast and founding member of the Tour de Kids charity ride, which has raised over $9 million for Australian children’s charities. An unexpected facet: he has applied analytical precision from property finance to open-source musical tuning work, contributing algorithmic tuning implementations in a collaborative audio project.
14 years of coding experience
MBA (Finance), MBA (Finance) at The University of Western AustraliaBachelor of Applied Science in Property Resource Management (Valuation), Bachelor of Applied Science in Property Resource Management (Valuation) at University of South Australia
Github Skills (3)
clojure10
clojure-cli10
music-theory10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
overtone/overtone
Feb 2012 - Jun 2012
Collaborative Programmable Music
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily worked on implementing and refining tuning systems for musical applications within the Overtone project. Their contributions involved introducing new tuning methods, such as Quarter-comma meantone, and integrating support for Scala scale definition files. They also addressed bug fixes and made improvements to the existing code, and added a 31-edo scale implementation.
musiccollaborativeprogrammable
forsakendaemon/website
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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