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 (61)
watson10
release-management10
octopus-deploy10
json-document10
sql-script9
markdown9
dbup9
cicd9
python9
typescript9
octopus9
devops9
language-translation9
nodejs-library9
ibm-watson9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Waldo000000/minesweeper-multiplayer
Dec 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:1 review, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
Waldo000000/punifier
Sep 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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