Tama Waddell
Software Engineer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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SeniorTama Waddell is a Melbourne-based consultant with 13 years of software engineering experience and a 7-year track record transforming teams across fintech, telecoms, government and enterprise customers. He combines hands-on technical leadership—improving performance, CI/CD and cloud/DevOps practices—with strong people skills, known for initiating difficult conversations, mentoring, and cultivating inclusive team cultures. Tama has led cross-functional teams at Telstra Purple, Readify and Cointree, delivering architecture, portfolio systems and performance improvements (including a 45% asset support increase at Cointree). A lifelong learner and community speaker, he balances Microsoft consultancy by day with Linux hacking and functional programming by night, often prototyping solutions that bridge legacy systems and modern tooling. Colleagues describe him as an empathetic, observant leader who pursues responsibility and measurable customer impact rather than checkbox solutions.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (41)
dotnet9
xero-api9
csharp9
dotnet-core9
fsharp9
out-of-process8
sdk7
command-line-interface7
azure7
cli6
ios-simulator6
python6
azure-cli6
visual-testing5
ai5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tamaw/SharpIRC
Jan 2013 - Feb 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
tamaw/AdventofCode
Apr 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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