David Bolton
Chief Technology Officer at Foodini
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolDavid Bolton is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with 18 years of experience building and scaling product and engineering organisations across startups and large enterprises. He has led initiatives from founding teams to enterprise re-platforms—delivering Westfield’s first ecommerce platform, transforming billion-dollar transactional systems, and launching Apple Pay at ING in record time. As a founding engineering leader at WooliesX and former CTO of Domain, he combines hands‑on delivery with strategic P&L thinking, turning data assets into commercial products. Currently advising multiple startups and VC portfolio companies while leading tech at Fresh Clinics, he blends product-driven engineering with talent development at scale. David holds a BSc in Information Systems and an MBA from AGSM@UNSW, and is known for recruiting and growing high-performing teams from a handful of people to hundreds. A pragmatic executor, he repeatedly thrives at the intersection of customer experience, operational reliability, and rapid commercialisation.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MBA (Technology) Business & Technology, MBA (Technology) Business & Technology at AGSM @ UNSW Business SchoolSHOREUNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (33)
xml8
akka7
networking7
scala7
akka-streams7
nokogiri6
ruby6
netty6
backend5
dgraph4
gmail4
tmux4
vim3
aggregates3
database3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lightningdb/dotfiles
Oct 2008 - Jul 2015
Contributions:186 commits, 1 push in 6 years 10 months
lightningdb/dgraph-docs
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
A native GraphQL Database with a graph backend
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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