Summary
Dan Turner is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Sydney with 12 years of professional experience and a 15+ year career arc spanning engineering, architecture, security and operations. He has built and scaled engineering teams across fintech and banking—from founding a boutique Fintech consultancy to leading payments and innovation labs at major institutions like Commonwealth Bank, and most recently serving as CTO at Home-in. Dan combines hands-on DevOps, web and security chops with strategic delivery experience, regularly shaping transformative capability-building programs and go-to-market technology for complex organisations. He has a track record of translating emerging tech (notably blockchain during his Innovation Labs tenure) into practical product outcomes and advising fast-moving startups and incumbents on new market expansion. Known for blending entrepreneurial grit with enterprise rigor, he often operates comfortably between board-level strategy and the code/deployment pipelines. Beyond leadership, he still spends time in the toolchain—reflecting a practitioner mindset that keeps technical decisions grounded in real-world constraints.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software at University of Newcastle