Dillon Giacoppo
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Sumday
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolDillon Giacoppo is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in Sydney with nine years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, high-availability systems. He has led infrastructure and platform teams at Canva—owning IaC and feature flag/A/B experimentation platforms—and now brings that operational mindset to product-focused engineering at Sumday. His background spans build and CI/CD tooling at Atlassian and production AWS infrastructure, with hands-on work improving build determinism and Python packaging in Bazel on open-source repos. Dillon blends team-building and technical leadership with a bias for automation and efficiency, and he pairs academic grounding in databases from UNSW with practical experience delivering reliable, scalable platforms.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (8)
pip10
starlark10
automation10
build-system10
automations10
package-management10
bazel10
python10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bazel-contrib/rules_python
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020
Bazel Python Rules
Role in this project:
Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:39 commits, 4 comments, 3 issues in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dillon primarily focused on modifying and expanding the functionality of the `rules_python` repository, leveraging and integrating the `pip` package manager. They introduced a mechanism to call `pip` as a subprocess and automated the wheel extraction process within the Bazel build system. The user also worked on improving build determinism and addressing issues related to namespace packages, enhancing the integration of Python packages within the Bazel build environment. This involves modifying scripts and build files to improve compatibility with Python packaging standards and tools.
pythonpypibazelpipstarlark
atlassian/terraform-provider-artifactory
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Terraform provider to manage Artifactory
Contributions:17 releases, 21 commits, 34 PRs in 11 months
artifactoryproviderinfrastructure-as-codeterraformterraform-provider
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