Tom Dunstan
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Gradle Inc.
Greater Adelaide Area Australia
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTom Dunstan is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Adelaide with 14 years of experience designing and delivering Java-based, web-first systems across public and private sectors. He blends hands-on engineering with architecture and team leadership, having introduced CI/CD, modern build tooling, automated testing, and Agile practices at organisations like Gradle Inc. and the South Australian EPA. Known for pragmatic technical stewardship, he has a track record of modernising legacy stacks (Ant→Gradle/Maven, ad-hoc DB changes→Liquibase) and building robust integration and test infrastructure. Comfortable liaising with stakeholders, he also mentors teams and runs workshops to align technical solutions with business needs. A practical innovator, he has shipped customer-facing products and prototypes—from geospatial upgrades using Leaflet to social commerce MVPs—while keeping a considered, professional approach under pressure.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Engineering, Computer Science, BEng, Engineering, Computer Science at University of Adelaide
English
Github Skills (200)
postgresql10
python10
whenever10
testing10
db210
jooq10
automation10
specification10
rdbms10
database-management10
plsql10
code-generator10
sql-query10
javascript10
miniprofiler10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tomdcc/sham
Feb 2012 - Sep 2013
Contributions:52 commits in 1 year 7 months
tomdcc/cucumber-variables
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:37 commits in 3 months
cucumber-jvmbindfor-developersjvmnatural-language
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.