Roy Wallace
Director Of Engineering at Octopus Deploy
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRoy Wallace is an experienced engineering leader and former researcher with 11 years in industry and a PhD in Engineering, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Octopus Deploy in Greater Brisbane. He blends hands-on full-stack and solution architecture expertise with people leadership—scaling teams, managing releases, and driving product-quality across deployment automation used by over 20,000 companies. His background includes impactful academic research in speech and biometric machine learning (reducing error rates substantially) and a history of shipping production systems from court audio platforms to enterprise BI. Comfortable alternating between low-level algorithmic work and high-level strategy, he often leverages research-grade rigor to solve practical engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Engineering at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
English, French, Chinese, Indonesian
Github Skills (103)
nuget10
markdown10
typescript10
octopus10
tracks10
release-management10
octopus-deploy10
dbup9
language-translation9
json-document9
database9
python9
ibm-watson9
cordova9
docker9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Waldo000000/punifier
Sep 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Waldo000000/HackerRankSolutions
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
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