Grant Lay
Principal Java Developer at Venturi
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolGrant Lay is a Principal Java Developer with 10+ years of experience leading Java and full-stack teams across government, research and commercial sectors from Queensland, Australia. He specialises in Spring Boot microservices, scalable Java APIs and modern front-end migrations (notably moving AngularJS to React Universal for SEO) while also driving platform upgrades, security hardening and DevOps practices like GitLab, ECS and infrastructure-as-code. Known for pragmatic technical leadership, Grant combines hands-on refactoring (fixing major Hibernate/Struts2 performance and vulnerability issues) with mentoring and architecture board approvals to deliver production-ready solutions on regular cadences. He brings a track record of lifting teams’ engineering maturity—introducing CI/CD, dependency scanning and modern monitoring—alongside international experience in building M&E systems for research organisations.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityBachelor of Commerce; Bachelor, Information Systems; Asian Studies; Indonesian, Bachelor of Commerce; Bachelor, Information Systems; Asian Studies; Indonesian at ANU
Indonesian
Stackoverflow
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18answers
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Github Skills (67)
maven10
monitoring10
tomcat10
angular10
kubernetes10
yeoman-generator10
java10
spring-boot10
docker10
evaluation10
generator10
webpack10
jhipster10
planning10
react10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Grant-Lay/hibernate-orm
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
spring-bootrelationalhibernatespringmapping
CCAFS/MARLO
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
Managing Agricultural Research for Learning and Outcomes
Contributions:328 commits, 2 PRs, 143 pushes in 1 year
reportspythonmavenreportingcgiar
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