Dane Lipscombe
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at TikTok
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDane Lipscombe is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of broad full‑stack and infrastructure experience, now managing high‑demand service infrastructure at TikTok from the Greater Sydney Area. He has led platform and SRE teams across fintech, blockchain, and enterprise banking — rebuilding payment platforms, running Kubernetes-based PaaS, and automating bare‑metal and VM provisioning with strong infrastructure-as-code discipline. Comfortable shipping end-to-end systems, Dane pairs Go and Typescript microservice development with operational tooling (Terraform, Nix, Kafka, GitHub Actions) and a security-first approach that delivered PCI‑compliant payment solutions. Notable for moving between hands‑on coding and technical leadership, he has built live preview CI/CD environments and solo prototypes (including blockchain experiments) that accelerated product decisions.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
80841ACT Game Programming, 80841ACT Game Programming at Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) RTO 88021HSC, HSC at Moorebank High SchoolCertificate IV Programming, Certificate IV Programming at TAFE NSW
English, Japanese
Github Skills (200)
programming-language10
nix10
python10
peer-to-peer10
windows10
firmware10
keyboard-events10
websocket10
qmk10
vim10
mouse10
bluetooth10
haskell10
ssh10
markdown10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
dlip/abbrgen
Feb 2024 - Mar 2026
Abbreviation generator for chording and text expansion
Contributions:130 pushes, 3 branches, 1 issue in 2 years
dlip/qmk_firmware
Dec 2020 - Jun 2026
https://github.com/dlip/qmk_firmware/tree/dlip/keyboards/crkbd/keymaps/dlip
Contributions:434 pushes, 16 branches in 5 years 6 months
keymaps
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