Joe Niland
Independent Software Consultant at Sydney Software Development
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Niland is a Principal Consultant and seasoned software engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of professional experience blending architecture, DevOps and full‑stack development. He leads delivery at Sydney Software Development while also advising as a Software Architect/DevOps consultant at Original Mind, demonstrating sustained dual roles that bridge strategy and hands‑on execution. Joe’s open‑source contributions include building and refining a connector for the popular web‑scrobbler project, showing attention to both frontend selectors and backend artist extraction logic. His background in engineering (BEng with honours from UTS) underpins a pragmatic approach to systems design and iterative improvement. Colleagues rely on him for clean, maintainable integrations and for improving developer workflows through tooling and linting hygiene. He brings a quiet, methodical focus to complex problems, often improving reliability through small, high‑impact refinements.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BEng DipEngPrac (Hons) Software, BEng DipEngPrac (Hons) Software at University of Technology Sydney
Stackoverflow
903reputation
168kreached
37answers
3questions
Github Skills (13)
javascript10
chrome-extension9
google-chrome-extension9
webextension9
wordpress6
asp-net6
php6
mschart6
laravel6
curl6
screen-scraping6
guzzle6
charts6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
web-scrobbler/web-scrobbler
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Scrobble music all around the web!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the web-scrobbler project by implementing and refining a connector for RBMA Radio. They developed the initial connector, which included track and album selectors, and artist identification logic. Subsequent commits involved linting fixes, whitespace removal, and critical updates to the track selection and artist extraction, demonstrating iterative improvements to connector functionality. The contributions demonstrate the user's ability to work across front-end (connector) and back-end (logic) aspects.
scrobblewebextensionlastfmlibrefmlistenbrainz
cloudposse/terraform-aws-ecs-codepipeline
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Terraform Module for CI/CD with AWS Code Pipeline and Code Build for ECS https://cloudposse.com/
Contributions:10 reviews, 7 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 4 months
aws-codepipelinecicdterraform-moduleterraformecs
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