Roland Quast
Director at SENGAC
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolRoland Quast is a seasoned software leader with 11+ years building full‑stack and mobile applications, currently directing SENGAC from Brisbane. He combines hands‑on engineering with product instincts—creator of fspec, a multi‑session AI coding agent written in Rust and TypeScript—and a long history of shipping reliable systems from university dashboards to high‑traffic commercial sites like thelott.com and Domino’s mobile apps. Roland founded and grew FormReturn, a Java desktop product still used in hundreds of organisations, demonstrating practical entrepreneurship and end‑to‑end ownership. He’s fluent across modern web stacks (React, TypeScript, Node.js), cloud-native AWS practices and testing-led development, and contributes to open-source UI projects such as the ondras/my-mind mind‑mapping frontend. Pragmatic and curious, he often bridges architecture, developer experience and delivery while mentoring teams to adopt better tooling and BDD practices.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology (incomplete) Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology (incomplete) Information Technology at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)AWS DevOps Engineering, AWS DevOps Engineering at AmazonDiploma of Information Technology Information Technology, Diploma of Information Technology Information Technology at University of New England (AU)Bachelor of Business (incomplete), Bachelor of Business (incomplete) at University of Southern Queensland
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Github Skills (10)
html10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
interface-design10
webapp9
mind-mapping9
mindmap9
css9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ondras/my-mind
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Online Mindmapping Software
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 13 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Roland primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the mindmapping software. They added functionality for topic notes, including an editor based on the Pell lightweight editor, and integrated it into the existing UI. Additionally, they implemented features like a notes indicator and added formatting options, further refining the user experience and expanding the application's capabilities. The user also added support for freemind notes export.
web-appmindmapmindmapping
rquast/swingsane
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 57 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
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