Dave Bryant
Chief Software Engineer at Acacia Systems
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Bryant is a Chief Software Engineer based in Adelaide with 13 years of recent professional experience and a long track record in mission-critical systems design. He specializes in modern C++ and has progressed from software architect roles into technical leadership, currently guiding a high-productivity engineering team at Acacia Systems. His career includes recurring leadership at Acacia Research and hands-on engineering at Quantum, giving him deep institutional knowledge of complex, safety- and reliability-focused software. Known for turning rigorous engineering practices into repeatable team processes, he balances architecture decision-making with mentoring and delivery. Despite a traditional academic background in Computer Systems from the University of Adelaide, he remains pragmatic and execution-focused, favoring maintainable, well-tested code over unnecessary novelty. Based in South Australia, he brings steady, outcome-driven leadership to teams building critical software infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Systems, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Systems at University of AdelaideScotch College, Adelaide
Github Skills (9)
cli9
terminal-emulator9
clang6
emacs5
cpp4
vim1
indexer1
llvm-clang1
llvm1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bagnose/terminol
Apr 2013 - Nov 2017
Contributions:951 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 4 years 8 months
emulatorterminal-emulatorsimple-terminalterminalcli
acres-com-au/vim-rtags
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:1 push in 1 month
cppvimclangllvm-clangindexer
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