Brendan Hayward
Senior Software Engineer at Orica
Newcastle-Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolBrendan Hayward is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing full-stack systems, data pipelines and analytics, currently building blast analytics at Orica with frequent Azure/Docker releases. He blends data science, bioinformatics and practical system architecture—comfortable from React/TypeScript frontends and Plotly visualisations to Python scientific stacks and ML models. Brendan has led digital and agile transformations, worked as a solutions architect for municipal projects, and helped researchers deploy AI at university scale. His background spans marketing systems, cloud migrations and production data tooling, giving him a knack for turning messy datasets into clear, actionable UIs. Outside work he volunteers on biotech and ML projects and brings an unexpected creative side from interests in music and food that inform a user-focused approach.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, HSC at John WycliffeBachelor of Science (Biotechnology), Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science (Biotechnology), Biotechnology at University of WollongongMaster of Data Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Master of Data Science, Mathematics and Statistics at James Cook UniversityT.E.C Cert IV, Business Management, T.E.C Cert IV, Business Management at 2009 Illawarra
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Github Skills (64)
algorithms10
genome10
python10
django10
orm10
gwas10
web-framework10
scipy9
typescript9
bioinformatics9
openblas9
scientific-computing9
random-forest9
opencl8
optimization8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BMJHayward/dotfiles
May 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
BMJHayward/bmjhayward.github.io
Jan 2021 - Feb 2026
Contributions:11 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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