David Barrell
Engineering Manager at Buildkite
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Barrell is an engineering manager based in Melbourne with a decade of experience building backend systems, infrastructure, and high-performing product teams across startups and scale-ups. Currently at Buildkite, he combines a hands-on engineering background—spanning SRE, CDK-based infra, and machine learning productionisation—with a strong delivery focus developed at Culture Amp where he led cross-functional teams to ship reporting and translation services. He thrives on clean APIs, thoughtful architecture and tuned CI/CD, but is equally energised by coaching engineers and shaping product delivery. An entrepreneur and founder of two startups, he brings practical experience turning research and prototypes into user-facing products. Outside tech he channels teamwork and technical craft into music and theatre, often contributing as a music director and technical director—an unusual creative lens he leverages in leadership and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ormond College, The University of MelbourneVictorian Certificate of Education, 96.75, Victorian Certificate of Education, 96.75 at Scotch CollegeThe University of Melbourne
Github Skills (128)
postgresql10
postgrest10
isomorphic-javascript10
client-library10
javascript10
edge-function10
download-file10
continuous-delivery10
ruby-application10
js10
database10
continuous-deployment10
buildkite10
continuous-integration10
typescript10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dabarrell/ccc-project
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 1 push in 1 month
dabarrell/supabase-js
Sep 2021 - Feb 2026
An isomorphic Javascript client for Supabase.
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 6 months
isomorphic-javascriptjavascript-clientsupabasejavascriptisomorphic
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