Claire Dodd
Senior Software Engineer at The Conversation Australia + NZ
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolClaire Dodd is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with a decade of experience building resilient web and mobile applications using Ruby, Node, React, and React Native. She has progressed through roles at ThoughtWorks and Redbubble and now shapes platform and product engineering at The Conversation Australia + NZ. Claire combines pragmatic engineering—favoring a balance of development speed and maintainability—with a collaborative, mentorship-oriented approach to team delivery. Beyond code, she is a visible diversity champion who brings authenticity and creativity to work, often conceptualizing systems as “worlds” to be designed and nurtured. Her interest in fantasy world‑building informs a systems-thinking mindset that surfaces non-obvious tradeoffs and long‑term impacts in software design. Open and candid, she fosters inclusive teams where unconventional perspectives are valued.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Application programming, Bachelor of Computer Science, Application programming at RMIT University
English
Github Skills (2)
prototyping3
levelup2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
ppau/project-m
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Something secret but not really.
Contributions:162 commits in 1 month
reallysecret
BikeBlackSpot/BikeBlackSpot
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:5 commits in 1 day
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