Leigh Appel
CTO & Co-Founder at Foresight Commercial Insurance
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLeigh Appel is a technology leader and co-founder with 13 years of software engineering experience, currently serving as CTO of Safesite and co-founding Foresight Commercial Insurance. He helped grow Safesite from a mobile app into an award-winning safety management platform that demonstrably reduces incidents and drives insurance savings. Leigh combines hands-on engineering and product leadership, having previously held senior engineering roles at Virgin Australia and consulting positions delivering enterprise systems. Based in Greater Brisbane, he blends startup grit with enterprise-grade delivery and a focus on measurable safety and risk outcomes. An interesting throughline in his career is the pivot from building core software at scale to directly influencing insurance product innovation.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Computer Science, Bachelor of Information Technology Computer Science at Griffith University
Github Skills (139)
cordova10
login-system9
javascript9
ionic9
swift9
ios9
css9
java9
android9
tmux9
html8
hosting8
authentication8
jwt-authentication8
vimscript8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
safesite/sendgrid-django
Feb 2021 - Nov 2024
Simple django backend to send email through SendGrid
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 9 months
pythondjangoemailsendgriddjango-backend
abarax/xquery-utilities
Feb 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:4 commits in 9 months
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