Harry Day
Senior Api Developer at NurtureCloud
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolHarry Day is a Senior API Developer with 12 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native backend systems across Google Cloud and AWS. He has led backend architecture and teams at startups (Buy Somewhere) and feature-led a long-running microservice decomposition for Jira Cloud at Atlassian, pairing hands-on C++, Python, C# and Java implementation with technical design and mentorship. At PwC’s Innovation team he architected GCP microservices and data ingestion pipelines, and more recently he’s driving API work at NurtureCloud. His background in competitive robotics (BLUEsat UNSW) and student leadership—where he grew a software team and built ROS/C++ systems for a Mars rover—gives him uncommon systems-design and embedded-systems empathy for cloud platforms. He’s known as a subject-matter expert in authentication and permissions for complex monolith-to-microservice transitions, and routinely coordinates cross-geo teams to deliver at scale. Based in Sydney, he blends pragmatic engineering with proven leadership across startups, enterprise, and volunteer projects.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Higher School Certificate, 93.15 ATAR, High School, Higher School Certificate, 93.15 ATAR at Ku-ring-gai Creative Arts High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 74.375 WAM, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 74.375 WAM at UNSW Australia
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Github Skills (110)
backend10
non-blocking9
robotics9
photography9
google-cloud-platform9
automation9
ros9
docker9
java9
computer-vision8
high-performance8
event-loop8
ai8
golang8
reactive8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hjed/yoast-coauthor-adapter
Apr 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
bluesat/numbat-embedded
Mar 2017 - Sep 2019
Embedded codebase for the Numbat rover
Contributions:23 PRs, 166 pushes, 30 branches in 2 years 6 months
codebaseroverembedded
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