Robert Crossfield
Senior Software Engineer at Deakin University
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolRobert Crossfield is a senior software engineer with 16 years’ experience blending low-level systems work and scalable backend development, currently driving platform engineering at Deakin University. He brings deep expertise in C++ performance engineering and 10+ years building PHP backends with Zend/Laminas and Slim, coupled with CKAD-certified cloud and container practices. A seasoned reverse engineer, he has ported large volumes of 6502, M68k and x86/x64 assembly to C/C++, resurrecting legacy software and improving modern OS compatibility using tools like IDA Pro and Ghidra. Robert excels at modernising legacy codebases for performance and maintainability while keeping an eye on pragmatic, production-ready architecture. Based in Geelong, Australia, he combines academic experience with sustained freelance reverse-engineering projects, giving him an uncommon fluency across both binary internals and high-level distributed systems.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology (Cmp.Sci&S.Dev), Computer Science, Bachelor of Information Technology (Cmp.Sci&S.Dev), Computer Science at Deakin University
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Github Skills (139)
postgresql10
abstraction10
interpreter10
dm10
rego10
game-development10
act10
game-engine10
amiga10
source-port10
nette10
dbal10
opengl10
database10
crossword10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
segrax/xrp-vanity
Aug 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 37 pushes in 9 months
segrax/php-testing
Dec 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 release, 18 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years
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