Summary
Wayne Durack is a pragmatic Co-Founder and seasoned full-stack engineer with 13 years’ experience building and leading web and serverless platforms for startups and enterprise teams. He co-founded Failsafe Engineering to act as a technical co‑founder for early-stage companies, blending plain-English stakeholder communication with rapid prototyping and delivery. Comfortable across React, NodeJS, AWS serverless and container ecosystems, he has designed API-first, event-driven architectures and production orchestration for complex integrations and high-throughput platforms. Wayne is as focused on mentoring teams and simplifying requirements as he is on implementation details like CI/CD, Terraform/CloudFormation and observability. He prefers lean processes, minimal meetings and shipping pragmatic MVPs quickly, and is actively expanding into IoT, TV and desktop app domains.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Toowong College
English, Spanish