Summary
Macklin Hartley is a Principal Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient software and guiding teams from idea to production across fintech and gaming companies in Australia. He specializes in thoughtful architecture and information flow, balancing technical trade-offs with pragmatic processes to deliver outcomes over outputs. Having progressed from developer roles at NEC and Cash Converters to senior and leadership positions at VGW and WeMoney, he combines hands-on engineering with people-first mentorship. Macklin is focused on helping teams climb the abstraction ladder as generative AI automates routine coding, treating AI as leverage for better problem framing and capability design. He thrives in small, autonomous teams and is motivated by tackling meaningful problems alongside respected peers. An observant systems thinker, he pays as much attention to social constraints as to code, untangling both to increase a project’s chance of success.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Curtin University of Technology