Jayce Dugan
AI Engineer at NextPlay
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolJayce Dugan is an AI Engineer and seasoned frontend developer with eight years’ experience building high-performance web products and AI-enabled tooling from startup greenfields to scale. Currently a founding AI engineer at NextPlay, he builds intelligence layers that surface hidden talent and hiring signals, having previously shipped customer-facing features for 230M+ monthly users at Canva. He blends deep frontend expertise (React, Next.js, Typescript) with backend and DevOps experience—designing performant systems, real-time features, and CI/CD improvements that cut pipeline time by 85%. Comfortable operating beyond traditional engineering boundaries, Jayce frequently leads product discovery, authors technical RFCs, and aligns cross-functional stakeholders to ship impactful work. He also runs real-time community platforms (Wild Rift Hub) and leverages enterprise-grade LLMs and agent tooling in daily workflows, bringing practical AI application experience to product delivery.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate IV Digital Media Technologies, Certificate IV Digital Media Technologies at IntouchQueensland Certificate of Education, Queensland Certificate of Education at Helensvale State High School
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Github Skills (54)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JayceDugan/OzBargainScraper
Jan 2021 - Jun 2023
Python Web scraper for the https://discord.gg/FrdETzHC3S discord community that scrapes https://ozbargain.com.au for the latest deals hourly.
Contributions:1 release, 8 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 4 months
discordpython-webscraperdiscord-pydocker
JayceDugan/JayceDugan
Sep 2021 - Mar 2026
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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