Paul Corbett
Lead Software Engineer at Qantas
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolPaul Corbett is a Lead Software Engineer in Sydney with 11 years of experience building scalable web products across travel and loyalty platforms. Currently leading an eight-person team at Qantas, he blends technical strategy with hands-on delivery to accelerate feature shipping while aligning engineering choices to long-term business goals. His background spans Expedia, Luxury Escapes and agency work, where he modernised build systems, created reusable design frameworks and drove measurable business outcomes like traffic and bookings uplifts. Known for pragmatic engineering, Paul favours simple, maintainable solutions that solve real problems without unnecessary complexity. He pairs mentorship and cross-team collaboration with frontline coding, often acting as the bridge between product, loyalty partners and engineering. Outside of leadership duties he retains a front-end focus and a track record of lifting team capability through training and process improvements.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
11 GCSEs, 11 GCSEs at Rivington & Blackrod High SchoolA Level, Business Studies, Maths, Art, A Level, Business Studies, Maths, Art at Rivington & Blackrod Sixth Form
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (83)
web-application10
apollo-server10
api10
javascript9
rest9
dependency-injection9
google-maps-javascript-api9
cms9
nunjucks9
apollo9
rest-api9
ghost9
static-site9
nodejs9
tooling8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
corbpaul/backpack
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
An exploration of using NodeJS/React/GraphQL tech-stack
Contributions:2 releases, 80 PRs, 89 pushes in 5 months
reactreact-graphqlexpressnodejsfullstack-development
corbpaul/quokkas
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 release, 24 PRs, 57 pushes in 2 months
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