Dave Sag
Principal Engineer at Atlassian
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolDave Sag is a Principal Engineer and serial founder with over three decades of web development experience, currently leading PeopleAI initiatives at Atlassian and mentoring teams in blockchain and JavaScript. He blends hands-on expertise in React/Redux/Node.js and Solidity with a history of creating and scaling companies—most notably co-founding Carbon Planet and Virtual Artists, the latter earning multiple awards and early internet acclaim. Dave has repeatedly moved between startups and enterprise, building products from front-end UIs to smart contracts and microservices while also serving as a CEO and board advisor. He brings rare cross-disciplinary strengths—software craft, systems thinking, public speaking and corporate finance—and an enduring curiosity evidenced by his ongoing yacht-mind simulation project, Nostroma.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of AdelaideBSc Maths Computer Science, BSc Maths Computer Science at The University of Queensland
Stackoverflow
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heroku
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sinatra
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jquery
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twitter-bootstrap
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Github Skills (200)
jsonb10
testing10
swagger10
async-await10
openapi10
integration-testing10
jose10
middleware10
algolia10
jsonwebtoken10
html10
json10
slack-api10
oracle-db10
api-server10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
davesag/timelocked-escrow
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:49 commits, 15 pushes, 16 branches in 1 month
key-inpartystakelockedsolidity
davesag/mock-algolia
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
A mock server for the Algolia search engine allowing integration testing without the need to hit Algolia's actual servers
Contributions:10 releases, 5 reviews, 318 commits in 3 years 8 months
algoliaalgolia-searchintegration-testingmock-serveralgolia-api
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