Summary
Rohan Mitchell is a versatile senior software engineer based in Victoria, Australia, with 15 years’ experience building full-stack web platforms, data pipelines and cloud infrastructure. He blends hands-on backend work in Ruby on Rails, Flask and Scala with React/Next.js front-ends, strong testing and CI/CD practices, and production ops on Kubernetes, GCP and AWS. At The Conversation he led strategic data and CI migrations and delivered end-to-end features that spanned BigQuery, GraphQL and Next.js, and he now focuses on product integrations and systems at The Lookout Way. Rohan also brings pragmatic experience in data engineering (Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Scio), PyTorch-based ML/RL work, and embedded hardware tinkering with Arduino and C/C++. Colleagues describe him as a researcher-minded engineer who pairs disciplined delivery (TDD, IaC) with an interest in AI safety and clear technical communication.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University