Gavin Baumanis
Operations
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolGavin Baumanis is a seasoned technology leader based in Melbourne with over 20 years of experience building and mentoring high-performing software teams and 11 years in senior engineering roles. He specializes in distributed applications and microservices, with hands-on expertise in the Actor model, Scala, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Mesos/Docker and related tooling. Known for fostering an academic, permission-to-fail culture, he balances ambitious experimentation with a relentless focus on delivering production-ready projects. Gavin has contributed to notable open-source projects like Play Framework and the Akka-in-Action codebase, improving documentation and modernizing builds to keep them compatible with newer Akka/Java releases. His background spans healthcare, education and research environments, where he turns complex requirements into reliable, maintainable systems and builds teams sought after across the business. Currently leading operations, he pairs recent postgraduate study in data science/AI with deep systems experience to bridge strategic insight and technical execution.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Data Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning, Master's degree Data Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning at James Cook University
coldfusion, spring, javascript, hibernate, java, scala, php, reactjs, python, r
Stackoverflow
343reputation
14kreached
21answers
17questions
Github Skills (17)
akka10
forms10
scala10
web-framework10
playframework10
documentation10
java9
sbt9
javas9
jvm8
html7
datastax-enterprise6
spray6
coldfusion6
cfc6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
playframework/playframework
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily focused on improving documentation within the Play Framework repository. Their contributions involved correcting author email addresses, formatting code samples, and updating examples within the Scala Guide, specifically related to forms and user input. This involved modifications to Scala code and HTML view templates, indicating a focus on clarity and accuracy within the framework's documentation. The user also updated form mappings and examples to provide clarity and more correct functionality.
restfulplay-frameworkframeworkplayframeworkjvm
RayRoestenburg/akka-in-action
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Accompanying source code for akka in action
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily contributed to the Akka-in-Action project by making adjustments to the build configuration, fixing deprecation warnings and upgrading the Akka version. The user also made changes to the code and comments. These changes focused on code maintenance and ensuring the project's compatibility with newer versions of Akka and Java, and included removing deprecated functionality.
scalaakkain-action
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