David Wales
Backend Developer at Stan.
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Wales is a pragmatic backend developer with 13 years' experience building cloud-native Golang web services—particularly AWS Lambda behind API Gateway integrated with PostgreSQL—for high-availability, secure production systems. He’s shipped streaming and enterprise finance/energy solutions at Stan and Kablamo, mentoring juniors and contributing engineering content along the way. A hands-on problem solver who prioritises clear communication and customer outcomes, he avoids academic fluff and focuses on delivering maintainable, testable services. His open-source contributions include practical improvements to widely used tools like Homebrew and the Visidata data toolkit, reflecting a knack for data handling and cross-platform robustness. Based in Sydney, he combines deep operational experience with a data-engineering mindset honed on primary health and tooling projects.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Nowra Anglican CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Technology at University of Technology Sydney
English
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Github Skills (23)
clipboardjs10
json10
formula10
package-management10
python10
homebrew10
clip10
formulas10
pasteboard10
csv10
clipboard10
data-wrangling9
cli9
software-packaging9
scripting8
Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
saulpw/visidata
May 2022 - Sep 2022
A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 2 commits, 13 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to improving the functionality and usability of the Visidata tool, with a focus on data handling and clipboard integration. Their work included fixing bugs related to clipboard operations on Windows, and also introduced new features like supporting JSONL array format and the ability to select filetypes when pasting data from the system clipboard. The user also worked on improving the fixed width saver functionality, ensuring all data is saved.
csvpythontuireconciliationcli
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 18 days
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to adding Python 3 support and updating formulas within the Homebrew legacy repository, which includes formulas for various software packages. The commits demonstrate modifications to build processes and dependencies to ensure compatibility with Python 3, across multiple formulas. They also addressed dependency issues and implemented changes to test suites for the updated Python environments.
macoshomebrew
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