Susan Brander
CTO & Co-Founder at Kaleida
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSusan Brander is a pragmatic CTO and co-founder with over 8 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms that balance rapid experimentation with the reliability required for customer-facing systems. She has led technical teams through productizing APIs, decomposing monoliths, and delivering renewable-energy and talent-management solutions using modern stacks and AWS-native practices. A strong advocate for domain-driven decision making, she empowers teams with business context while raising engineering standards through automation and responsible technology choices. Outside the startup day job she co-organises Tech Leading Ladies in Melbourne, actively working to close the gender gap in technical leadership—an enduring thread across her career from developer to executive.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Systems Engineering at RMIT University
Github Skills (14)
testing8
ruby8
faker7
csharp6
dotnet4
iteration4
aws-lambda3
nodejs2
aws2
lambda2
bootstrap2
serverless-framework2
serverless2
serverless-applications1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
snoozins/haskell-book
Aug 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
snoozins/FakerDotNet
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
A .NET port of the Ruby faker gem
Contributions:28 pushes, 7 branches in 25 days
dotnetrubycsharpgemfaker
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