Oliver Daff
Senior Software Engineer at harrison.ai
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Daff is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems across security, media, and cloud platforms. He blends hands-on implementation with architecture and technical leadership—having led teams at SBS, designed IP video and streaming solutions for Foxtel and BSKYB, and driven analytics and real-time threat visualisations at Arbor Networks. Currently at harrison.ai, he favors pragmatic tooling choices and has deep expertise in Scala, Python and cloud-native infrastructure, including large-scale migrations to AWS and automation with Puppet/Salt/Jenkins. Notable behind-the-scenes strengths include designing elasticity, fault-tolerance and multi-tenant systems at VMware/SpringSource and shipping production pipelines for terabytes of data analysis. Based on the Gold Coast, he combines consultant agility with enterprise-grade engineering discipline and a knack for turning complex operational challenges into maintainable, observable systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at Trent UniversityMsc, Computing, Msc, Computing at Northumbria UniversityBSc, Environmental Science, BSc, Environmental Science at University of Plymouth
Github Skills (31)
confluent-cloud8
sdk7
virtual-assistant7
aws6
nlp5
natural-language-processing5
kafka5
machine-learning4
terraform-provider4
language-processing4
terraform4
aws-sdk4
deep-learning4
rust4
chatbot4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
oliverdaff/iceberg-rs
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 38 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
oliverdaff/DNScrutiny
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:55 commits, 21 pushes in 28 days
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