Ollie Brennan
Chief Technology Officer at Ponferrada
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolOllie Brennan is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in Sydney with 13 years of experience scaling distributed engineering teams across startups and high-growth companies. He has repeatedly built and led cross-functional organisations—from early-stage product and UX teams at RideMinder to global cloud engineering at Slack—delivering resilient, cloud-native platforms and improved developer velocity. Ollie blends hands-on platform and infrastructure expertise (Kubernetes, container-as-a-service, DR and FinOps practices) with product sensibility and board-level strategy, having served on startup boards and partnered with investors. He is skilled at putting DevOps and SRE practices “everywhere,” championing AI tooling in engineering workflows, and designing processes that sustain rapid growth without sacrificing reliability. Pragmatic and people-focused, Ollie has a track record of creating inclusive engineering cultures while expanding teams across regions and on/offshore models.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 hons, Computer Science, 2:1 hons, Computer Science at University of Kent
English, French
Github Skills (56)
ios10
react-native10
bottom10
reanimated10
cross-platform10
android10
react10
mapbox-gl9
react-native-module9
bottomsheet9
native-module9
mobile9
react-mapbox-gl9
react-native-library8
onesignal8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
olliebrennan/Zf2SlugGenerator
Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:17 commits, 1 comment in 2 months
olliebrennan/authorize
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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