Kelvin Bulwinkel
Senior Application Architect
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolKelvin Bulwinkel is a Senior Application Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading cross-platform web and mobile products from prototype to scale. Based on the Gold Coast, he blends product-first thinking with deep full-stack expertise—React/Next.js and TypeScript for web, Flutter for multi-platform mobile—while guiding teams as a technical lead and former CTO. He has a track record of rapid, revenue-focused delivery (relaunching apps in weeks, driving high user growth such as 50k monthly users for experimental products and ~1.1M installs in a year) and operationalising CI/CD, low/no-code tooling and platform migrations with zero downtime. Known for pragmatic tech choices, mentoring engineers, and shaving developer effort through tooling (Retool, CI pipelines, Gradle optimisations), he thrives in environments that value ownership and creativity. His background in languages and a Master’s in Software Development informs a clear communicator who also presents at meetups and podcasts, bridging technical depth with product storytelling.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Software Development, Master's Degree Software Development at Griffith UniversityHigh School Information Technology, High School Information Technology at The Rockhampton Grammar School
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (66)
reactive-forms10
mobile-development10
windows10
app-framework10
skiasharp10
skia10
dart10
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
macos10
flutter10
ios10
mobile-game10
desktop10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bulwinkel/Intellij-Settings
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:422 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
bulwinkel/Wakeful
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:47 commits, 10 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 months
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