David Goodlad
Chief Technology Officer at Qsic
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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RockstarDavid Goodlad is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Melbourne with 18 years of experience building secure, scalable payment and platform systems across APAC, Europe, and the US. As CTO of Qsic and former Senior Software Engineering Manager at Cash App, he led global Card Payments platforms and blends hands-on engineering with strategic product delivery. His background spans roles at GitHub and Envato where he focused on development, security architecture, and team leadership, giving him deep expertise in both building and protecting distributed systems. An active tinkerer and open-source contributor, he has contributed DevOps and packaging improvements to well-regarded projects like babushka, including adding Arch Linux support and refining package manager integrations. Comfortable moving between code, infrastructure, and executive strategy, he is known for turning complex regulatory and operational requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions. Colleagues describe him as a builder who keeps shipping—whether that’s payments infrastructure at scale or “random things” in his spare time.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
system-administration10
bash10
package-management10
archlinux10
pacman10
testing9
git8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
benhoskings/babushka
May 2010 - Apr 2011
Test-driven sysadmin.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to the project by implementing and configuring system profiles for different operating systems, including adding support for Arch Linux. They also focused on improving the package management process by adding and refining the 'pacman' package manager for Arch Linux. Additionally, the user fixed array ordering issues and other minor bugs within the testing framework.
sysadminguicetest-driventddruby
dgoodlad/dotfiles
Jun 2010 - Mar 2019
Contributions:291 commits, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 10 months
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