David Thornton
Software Engineering at Exciting New Challenge
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Thornton is a software engineer with 11 years’ experience building secure, compliant infrastructure for finance, health and government systems from Sydney. He combines hands-on engineering with a legal and IP background (LLB) and a BSc in Computer Science/Statistics, enabling pragmatic solutions to regulatory and security challenges. A former co-founder at Circle Financial and senior engineer at startups including Slyp, Driva and Lysn, he specializes in commonsense engineering that balances scalability with auditability. An early-stage tech investor and web3 enthusiast, he looks for unicorn potential while actively exploring decentralized tooling (noted via his IPFS-linked GitHub bio). Colleagues know him for translating complex regulatory requirements into reliable, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Statistics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Statistics at University of New South WalesBachelor of Laws (LLB), Intellectual Property Law, Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Intellectual Property Law at UNSW Australia
English
Github Skills (200)
react-boilerplate10
tsc10
styled-components10
docker-desktop10
immer10
scaffolding10
javascript10
ecosystem10
golang10
redux-saga10
foundation10
typescript10
eslint10
android10
react-router10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
francisfuzz/oopsies
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:20 commits in 23 days
davidthornton/bluesn0w
Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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