Summary
Zac Barton is a seasoned full-stack engineer with 14 years of experience leading teams and delivering scalable web and data-driven applications across property, email, and startup domains. Currently a Lead Engineer at Apprise Risk Solutions, he previously led product and engineering efforts at REA Group’s PropTrack, atmail, and several early-stage ventures where he built cloud-native services with Node.js, AWS, messaging systems and Postgres/MongoDB. Zac combines hands-on coding with technical leadership, shipping reliable systems that serve finance, real estate and government clients and improving outcomes through analytics and automation. He has a history of founding and scaling products—from a job-application marketplace to clinical and property platforms—bringing an operator’s mindset to engineering decisions. Based in Queensland, Australia, Zac is pragmatic about developer experience and observability, favoring maintainable architectures and tooling that keep users and customers happy. Behind the scenes he often blends legacy integrations with modern stacks, enabling complex domains to move faster without sacrificing reliability.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
English