Dylan Smith
Application Platform Technical Lead
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDylan Smith is an Application Platform Technical Lead based in Melbourne with a decade of experience building and operating backend and platform systems across ecommerce and research environments. He blends a rigorous scientific background—a PhD in chemical biology and hands-on organic synthesis—with practical software engineering, having progressed from PHP feature work to senior platform engineering at Catch and now leading platform efforts at the University of Melbourne. Dylan is comfortable translating complex domain requirements into reliable production services and has a track record of improving developer-facing infrastructure and deployment workflows. His uncommon combination of laboratory research and production engineering gives him a strong systems-thinking perspective and an ability to bridge research teams and engineering practice.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of MelbourneBachelor of Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Bachelor of Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry at La Trobe University
Github Skills (86)
authentication10
push-notifications10
openid-connect10
two-factor-authentication10
factor10
portal10
cookie10
aws10
totp10
golang9
terraform9
security9
python9
yubikey9
chat9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Chemsmith/fcc-git-nomic
Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
A Nomic game designed to teach new developers git and Github workflows for open source contributions.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
crosswordversion-controlgithub-workflowsteachnomic
pathtofile/dockenv
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
Dockenv - Run python in docker the easy way
Contributions:2 PRs in 1 year 5 months
dockerfilepythondocker-imagedockerdocker-compose
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