Dominic Farrington
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDominic Farrington is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Australia with a decade of experience building high-performance, mission-critical software across desktop, web and cloud environments. He has led performance and architecture improvements that delivered dramatic wins—reducing build times by 70% and improving web platform load times by 90%—while championing testing, code quality and developer workflows. Dominic’s hands-on background spans C#/.NET desktop apps (WPF, WebView2), ASP.NET Core microservices on AWS, and Kubernetes-hosted services, with deep experience translating operational needs into real-time telemetry visualisations. He pairs technical leadership—rebuilding backend teams, hiring and growing engineers—with client-facing delivery and project ownership. A former English teacher turned engineer, he brings rare cross-cultural communication skills and a pragmatic focus on outcomes. Currently driving platform work at Tilt, he combines systems-level thinking with practical optimisations that speed both development and operations.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate in Business Administration Business Administration and Management General, Graduate Certificate in Business Administration Business Administration and Management General at Melbourne Business SchoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at South China University of TechnologyTrinity TESOL Certification Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Trinity TESOL Certification Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages at Atlantic School of English
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
147reputation
5kreached
3answers
5questions
Github Skills (77)
autocomplete10
schema10
animation10
docker-compose10
codegen10
stroke10
compose9
code-generator9
sdk9
cli9
dockerfile9
graphql9
dotnet8
browser8
docker8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OkkioXavier/graphql-zeus
Jan 2020 - Nov 2024
GraphQL client and GraphQL code generator with GraphQL autocomplete library generation ⚡⚡⚡ for browser,nodejs and react native
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 10 months
graphql-clientreactgraphql-code-generatorbrowserreact-native
OkkioXavier/Algorithms
Jul 2024 - Sep 2024
C# Solutions to Algorithms Problems
Contributions:23 PRs, 21 pushes, 27 branches in 2 months
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