Kai Tait
Platform Engineer
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Tait is a Platform Engineer based in Brisbane with 11 years of hands-on full-stack experience spanning React, Node.js, Java, .NET, and cloud platforms (AWS and Azure). He’s shifted from building customer-facing microservices to shaping internal developer experience—creating Terraform-driven infra, DevOps pipelines, project templates, and containerised test environments to help teams ship consistently. Security-minded and pragmatic, he’s led live incident responses (including SSRF and S3 subdomain takeover exploits), runs both automated and manual testing, and documents practical best practices for engineers. His background across finance, healthcare, and retail gives him a strong appreciation for compliance and risk in production systems. Comfortable mentoring and bridging technical and business stakeholders, he brings leadership forged in hospitality, support, and distributed engineering teams. A generalist who picks up new tools quickly, he focuses on maintainable architecture and connecting gaps specialists often miss.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Game and Interactive Media Design, Bachelor of Information Technology, Game and Interactive Media Design at James Cook UniversityHeathmont College
German, English, Tagalog
Stackoverflow
1,719reputation
316kreached
42answers
14questions
Github Skills (87)
javascript9
dotnet9
sdk9
python9
cpp9
aws9
php9
java9
aws-sdk9
decorators8
ruby8
injection8
documentation8
ioc-container7
datetimepicker7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spik3r/movie-catalogue
Nov 2019 - Aug 2024
React app using themoviedb
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 10 months
reactjsreactthemoviedbreact-app
spik3r/spik3r
Jun 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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