Craig Read
Software Engineer at Redbubble
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Read is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of professional experience and a track record of evolving alongside technology—from Delphi and Oracle-era systems to modern stacks like Elixir, Ruby, Scala, Swift, Go and GraphQL. Based in Melbourne, he blends strong hands-on coding with people skills, having contributed to product-focused teams at Redbubble and led application development and legacy modernization efforts across finance and retail. He thrives on creating software that improves people’s lives and is comfortable working across databases, CI pipelines and multiple operating systems. Notably, his career shows a pattern of taking on technical debt and legacy platforms (Delphi, Java 1.6) and steadily migrating them toward contemporary architectures. Colleagues know him as a curious learner who pairs practical engineering with a business-aware mindset.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate IV in Business, Business, Certificate IV in Business, Business at Box Hill InstituteNovell Certified Netware Engineer, Network Engineering, Novell Certified Netware Engineer, Network Engineering at ComTechMVS Programming, System Design and Analysis, Systems Analysis and Computer Programming, MVS Programming, System Design and Analysis, Systems Analysis and Computer Programming at Data Task Pty. Ltd.
Github Skills (75)
android-application9
backend9
html5-canvas9
tcp9
api8
logstash8
udp8
logging8
tiled8
plug8
apollo-client7
relay7
rest-api7
google-cloud-logging7
melonjs7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
RHoKAustralia/melb-timor-leste
May 2015 - Sep 2017
Timor Leste Linguistic project - RHoK Melbourne
Contributions:28 commits, 22 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 4 months
linguisticmelbourne
RHoKAustralia/local-linguist-server
Sep 2015 - Mar 2020
Rails back-end for the local linguist android application
Contributions:118 commits, 66 PRs, 122 pushes in 4 years 6 months
android-applicationbackendrails
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