Tom Dane
Staff Software Engineer at Tesla
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolTom Dane is a Staff Software Engineer in Sydney with 12 years of experience building high-performance web systems and APIs, currently accelerating sustainable energy at Tesla. He excels at shipping code quickly and reliably, improving quality through testing, CI, and pragmatic design, and has driven significant performance wins such as a 62% page-load reduction and 10x request throughput in prior roles. Comfortable across .NET, Node.js, cloud-native AWS architectures, and infrastructure-as-code, he also brings a disciplined focus on HTTP caching, monitoring-driven development, and scalable microservices. A former conference speaker and internal educator, Tom blends hands-on engineering with mentoring and cross-team collaboration, and his background in philosophy gives him a thoughtful approach to complex design tradeoffs.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityWeb Development Immersive, Web Development, Web Development Immersive, Web Development at General AssemblyThe University of SydneyCertifcate IV in Information Technology, Web Development, Certifcate IV in Information Technology, Web Development at TAFE
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
1,021reputation
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15answers
21questions
Github Skills (75)
cryptocurrency10
bitcoin10
cryptography10
react10
git-repo9
gatsby9
owasp9
security9
asp-net-core9
asp-net9
p2p9
google-developers9
chrome9
graphql9
foundation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ocius/api
Feb 2019 - Jan 2021
This is an official repository by Ocius Technology. An API serving 24/7 live USV data and images. Built in C# and .NET and deployed with AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB and AWS API Gateway
Contributions:21 reviews, 13 PRs, 173 pushes in 1 year 11 months
api-gatewayserverlessaws-lambdaawslambda
thomasdane/PersonalWebsite
Jul 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:58 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 6 months
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