Paul Colby
Head Of Engineering at Digital Agriculture Services (DAS)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolPaul Colby is a seasoned Head of Engineering based in Melbourne with over 20 years of hands-on software engineering and technical leadership experience, and 15 years in senior industry roles. He has a proven track record architecting high-throughput, low-latency cloud systems and leading teams through major re-architectures and product deliveries across SaaS, messaging, and backup domains. His background spans bare-metal C/C++ systems to modern AWS services, having built MessageMedia’s global messaging gateway and driven a 10x data-growth re-architecture as CTO at Backup365. Comfortable shifting between deep technical work and executive responsibilities, he also brings experience negotiating cloud COGS and collaborating on research projects with university teams. Notably, he blends startup agility with enterprise-grade operational rigor, making him effective at scaling both technology and teams.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BComp (Hons I) Computer Science, BComp (Hons I) Computer Science at James Cook University
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Github Skills (200)
whatsapp10
cpp10
tencent10
windows-app10
qml10
kotlin-android10
multimeter10
privacy10
password-manager10
windows10
polar10
githubactions10
windows-application10
mysql10
appveyor10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
pcolby/scripts
Oct 2013 - Nov 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 6 years 2 months
messagemedia/shmop
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Shared memory manipulation library for PHP
Contributions:29 commits, 53 pushes, 8 branches in 17 days
manipulationmanipulation-librarymemoryshared-memoryphp
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