Hamish Buckmaster
Senior Software Engineer at Karia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolHamish Buckmaster is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with nine years of experience building web and backend systems, primarily in banking and payments. He has progressed from graduate roles at NAB through senior and lead engineering positions at Till Payments, leaselab, and now Karia, demonstrating an ability to deliver in both large financial institutions and fast-moving fintechs. Comfortable spanning the full stack, he focuses on pragmatic, production-ready solutions that balance reliability and speed of delivery. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex domain requirements into maintainable code and for mentoring engineers as teams scale. His background includes enterprise IT at IBM, giving him strong operational and system-integration instincts that complement his product-facing work. Based in Australia, he pairs institutional financial systems experience with a startup mindset, often bridging risk-aware engineering and rapid feature delivery.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology (Professional Practice), Bachelor of Information Technology (Professional Practice) at Federation University Australia
Github Skills (65)
monorepo10
eslint10
package10
nodejs10
npm10
lerna10
javascript9
environment-variables9
typescript9
build-system9
redocly8
sdk8
expo-router8
toolbox7
end-to-end-encryption7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HamishBuckmaster/lerna
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
:dragon: A tool for managing JavaScript projects with multiple packages.
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
dragonjavascript-projectsjavascriptnodejsnpm
FedUni/Project-VR-Moon-Experience
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Project - VR Moon Experience
Contributions:66 commits in 7 months
moonunity
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