Hayden Meade
Senior Software Engineer at ANZ
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolHayden Meade is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with a decade of experience building cloud-native, high-throughput microservices and observability platforms for large organisations. With a background in Electrical Engineering and Finance from Monash University, he has delivered systems used by hundreds of thousands of users and engineered notification and tracking services that sustain thousands of transactions per second. He combines hands-on Golang expertise on GCP and AWS with practical improvements to testing, CI/CD, and SLO tooling—reducing integration test times by half and cutting logging volume by 60% through metric-driven observability. Hayden is known for driving cross-team standards (OpenTelemetry SDKs, linters, release pipelines) and translating product, security, and mobile requirements into scalable implementations. Beyond coding, he mentors engineers and leads working groups to propagate best practices, bringing an engineer’s curiosity and an operator’s discipline to reliability and performance challenges.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Gippsland GrammarBachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Finance, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Finance at Monash University
English, French
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Github Skills (17)
displays7
neovim7
lua7
extensible6
test-coverage6
neovim-plugin5
coverage5
testing4
vim4
nvim4
switcher1
plugin1
minecraft1
vsix1
vscode1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
haydenmeade/qmk_firmware
May 2020 - Mar 2024
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
rp2040firmwareavratmelusb
nvim-neotest/neotest-jest
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:22 reviews, 31 commits, 46 PRs in 7 months
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