David Crayford
Principle Software Engineer at Rocket Software
Greater Perth Area Australia
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Top SchoolDavid Crayford is a Principal Software Engineer with over 30 years of enterprise experience, currently modernizing legacy mainframe products at Rocket Software from his base in the Greater Perth Area. He combines deep z/OS mainframe expertise with extensive distributed systems, systems programming and DevOps experience, enabling pragmatic modernization of mission-critical platforms. A career that spans operators to senior engineering roles demonstrates his hands-on fluency across product development, systems administration and operations. David’s curiosity about programming languages, hardware and distributed architectures drives inventive, low-risk modernization approaches that bridge decades-old systems with modern tooling. Though primarily focused on enterprise customers, he consistently seeks technically interesting projects that reward innovation and durability.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Abbotsfield Grammar School
Stackoverflow
571reputation
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31answers
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Github Skills (64)
low-level9
eclipse8
portability8
kotlin8
linux8
java8
networking8
gradle8
runtimes8
garbage-collector7
windows7
omr7
high-performance7
groovy7
jcl6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
daveyc/pyzfile
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:15 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
Lua4z/Lua4z
Oct 2014 - Jun 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 3 pushes in 6 years 8 months
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