Tristan Cartledge
Principle Engineer - Founding Engineer at Speakeasy
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolTristan Cartledge is a principal engineer and founding engineer with 11 years of professional software experience, currently leading SDK generation and technical architecture at Speakeasy from his base in Cairns, Australia. He brings deep hands‑on expertise in building cloud-native, event-driven microservices—primarily in Golang—deployed on Kubernetes across AWS/GCP, gained through senior engineering and technical leadership roles at Curve, Splash Damage, Bossa and other studios. Tristan has led teams of up to 18 engineers delivering large-scale online platforms and games-as-a-service, combining server, client, DevOps and platform SDK integration experience with a pragmatic focus on reliability and incremental migration. He’s comfortable both mentoring teams and shipping core systems himself, having repeatedly driven cross-cutting initiatives like CRM integrations, eventual-consistency pipelines and scalable backend migrations. An early freelance consultant and long-time polyglot developer, he pairs product-minded architecture with practical implementation skills across languages from C++ and C# to Python and NodeJS.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Senior High School Certificate N/A, Senior High School Certificate N/A at St Augustine's College CairnsBachelor Information Technology, Bachelor Information Technology at James Cook University
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Github Skills (110)
cuelang10
12-factor10
configuration-language9
golang9
database9
html5-canvas9
docker9
kubernetes9
go9
programming-language8
hcl8
consensus8
key-value8
raft8
distributed-systems8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
reefbarman/gamedb-unity-plugin
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
reefbarman/multiplatform-html-game-framework
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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