Trent Summerfield
Principal Engineer at DroneShield
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTrent Summerfield is a Principal Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years building high-performance, production-grade systems across real-time payments, geospatial 3D tooling, and drone sensing platforms. He has progressed from developer to tech lead and principal roles at Tyro, Nearmap and DroneShield, consistently focusing on scalability, performance and delivering complex data-driven features. Trent blends hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, often taking on the hardest parts of the stack to turn “pipe dreams” into operational reality. He has particular depth in realtime processing and 3D tools, bringing practical solutions that bridge analytics and production services. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who mentors teams while driving measurable improvements in throughput and reliability.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at University of Technology Sydney
English
Github Skills (20)
avro10
json-schema9
confluent9
json9
transmission9
openvpn9
schema9
protobuf9
rest-api9
docker8
docker-container8
kafka8
torrent8
schema-validation8
kafka-connect8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
trentsummerfield/tvm
Mar 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:82 commits, 51 pushes in 1 year 4 months
trentsummerfield/abc-breaking
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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