Gary Chapman
Co-Founder And Lead Developer at BillHero
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Chapman is a veteran founder and lead developer with 11+ years of startup leadership and a 30+-year software career building products from embedded to cloud. He co-founded and architected multiple ventures including Bill Hero (energy bill monitoring), Grouply.co, Property UX and the acquired busineSMS.com, blending C#/.NET, Node.js, SQL/NoSQL databases and cloud platforms to deliver reliable production systems. Gary pairs hands-on engineering—evident in contributions to Rocket.Chat’s back-end integrations and Slack Bridge work—with product-minded automation using Zapier, Make and AirTable to streamline operations. Based in Melbourne, he’s comfortable shipping across the full stack and has a track record of turning complex telecom and billing problems into developer-friendly APIs and customer-facing services. A pragmatic engineer, he often focuses on durable, maintainable solutions rather than trendy tech, bringing pragmatism from enterprise and startup exits to every new product.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Parkwood High SchoolB App Sci, B App Sci at RMIT University
English, German, Turkish
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
meteor10
back-end-development10
coffeescript9
chat9
markdown-it8
markdown8
collaboration8
realtime8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 6 PRs, 12 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Gary contributed to the back-end functionality of the Rocket.Chat platform by modifying markdown processing for links to ignore parentheses within the URI. They also merged a branch with read-only room features, resolving conflicts and adjusting channel settings. Moreover, they implemented and refactored Slack Bridge integration, added methods to modify user roles, and optimized username lookups for muting users.
meteordata-protectionchatjavascriptcollaboration
garychapman/airtable.net
Jan 2020 - Feb 2025
Airtable .NET API Client
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
api-clientapidotnetairtablecsharp
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