Summary
Terrence Benade is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Melbourne with over 20 years in software across architecture, delivery and leadership, and 11 years of experience in progressive senior roles. He specializes in transforming monoliths into decoupled, continuously delivered services, having driven SEEK from quarterly big-bang releases to hundreds of smaller deployments weekly while dramatically improving mean time to recovery. Comfortable shifting between hands-on coding, solution architecture and people leadership, he has built developer experience platforms (centralised logging, managed build services) and launched an internal tools team to reduce operational friction. Prior roles at MYOB and other enterprise customers saw him deliver identity services, eCommerce and large-scale web platforms with strong automation and CI/CD practices. Known for pragmatic innovation, he combines enthusiasm for mentoring with a track record of operationalising secure, scalable platforms that empower teams to move fast.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer