James Dalton
Software Engineer at Kraken
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Dalton is a software engineer with 11 years' experience bridging finance and technology, currently building at Kraken after senior engineering roles at Culture Amp and Pathify. He began his career in financial advisory and transaction structuring at CBRE, giving him uncommon insight into deal workflows, capital raising and commercial risk that informs his product and engineering decisions. Proficient across full-stack and backend development, he contributes to open-source tooling—helping harden OpenAPI 3.0 validation in the well-regarded kin-openapi Go library. Based in Melbourne, he combines rigorous engineering practices with a commercial lens from an Engineering/Commerce degree at the University of Sydney, making him effective at translating complex financial requirements into reliable software.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
St Ignatius' College, RiverviewThe University of Sydney
Github Skills (8)
golang10
swagger10
go10
api10
validation10
openapi10
validations10
testing9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
getkin/kin-openapi
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
OpenAPI 3.0 (and Swagger v2) implementation for Go (parsing, converting, validation, and more)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 6 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on validating and refining OpenAPI 3.0 specifications within the `kin-openapi` repository. Their contributions involved implementing and enhancing validation logic for various OpenAPI objects, including Info, Paths, and schema properties. These changes included adding mandatory fields, error wrapping, and updating tests to ensure compliance with the OpenAPI standard. They also refactored code for improved validation checks.
golangapivalidationparsingconverting
beccahbartlett/madapt-frontend
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:102 PRs, 216 pushes, 75 branches in 5 months
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