Patrick Blume
Chief Technology Officer at Covaler
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolPatrick Blume is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over 25 years’ experience designing secure, high-performance systems for the financial services sector. He blends hands-on engineering—rooted in .NET, SQL Server and scalable architectures—with strategic security leadership, holding CISSP and Certified Ethical Hacker (Master) credentials. At Covaler he built and operationalised a comprehensive cyber security program and drove ISO 27001 adoption across the group, while previously founding and scaling Acceleon from two founders to a 20+ person product and consulting firm. Known for delivering low-latency, mission-critical solutions (including real-time identity verification and large-scale search platforms), he pairs commercial pragmatism with an appetite for emerging technologies. Based in Melbourne, Patrick combines academic rigour—a First Class Honours in Mathematical & Computer Science—with a history of practical infrastructure modernisation and team leadership.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematical & Computer Science, Mathematical & Computer Science at La Trobe University
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Github Skills (50)
biology10
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ontology10
research-data-management10
unify10
sequence-analysis9
writers9
mass-spectrometry9
excel9
bioinformatics9
biostatistics9
fasta9
computational-biology8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Etschbeijer/MzIdentMLDB_Library
May 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:194 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
Etschbeijer/GibbsSampler
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:30 commits, 28 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
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