David Reece
Technical Lead at ReadyTech Work Pathways
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Reece is a Technical Lead based in Adelaide with 11+ years building reliable back-end systems and applications across Ruby on Rails, C#, and Python. He blends pragmatic agile and test-driven practices with hands-on engineering, having led projects from bespoke Facebook platform apps to distributed Raspberry Pi fleets integrating NFC, Bluetooth beacons, and LED arrays. Comfortable across server-side stacks and hardware-interfacing code, he also writes games in Unity and composes electronic music in his spare time, reflecting a creative approach to problem solving. His career spans freelance and product roles since 2008 and is underpinned by a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems) from the University of Adelaide. Colleagues rely on him for clean test suites and pragmatic architecture that balance maintainability with real-world constraints.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bacholer of Engineering: Computer Systems, Engineering, GPA 6.240, Bacholer of Engineering: Computer Systems, Engineering, GPA 6.240 at University of Adelaide
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (56)
jquery9
searching9
select29
python9
raspberry-pi9
selector8
selectbox8
home-automation8
privacy8
iot8
jstree8
mqtt8
scrolling8
home-assistant8
javascript7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SyntheticDave/qmk_firmware
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
rp2040nrf52840firmwareavratmel
SyntheticDave/job_match_challenge
May 2023 - Jun 2023
This is a skeleton rails application for a job match recommendation engine challenge
Contributions:1 review, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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