Joshua Paling

Director of Engineering

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia22 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of software engineering experience.
Strong advocate for AI adoption in development workflows.
Proven leadership in managing multiple engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and EdTech expert with strong leadership in software engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ruby On RailsReactLaravelJavascript

Other Skills

ReduxNode JSPHPMongoDBPostgresDockerRubyRailsjQueryHTML 5CSS 3SASSBootstrapReact JSGit

About

Technical leader with >20 years experience in software. Excellent communicator, great at translating technical concepts to / from business. Obsessed with AI augmented development, fast delivery, continuous improvement, efficiency, and minimal bureaucracy. Comfortable leading multiple teams and managing managers. Strong believer in technical managers remaining hands-on. Pushing AI adoption hard - in developer workflows, product solutions, and personal use. WE'RE HIRING! If you're a developer or engineering leader, DM me to find out more! If you contact me, please start with the phrase "correct horse battery staple" - that way I'll know you've read my profile.

Experience

22 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Luxury escapes

4 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

Head Of Engineering

Apr 2020 – Mar 2021 · 11 mos

Head Of Engineering - Lux Everyday

Promoted

Sep 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

Senior Software Engineer - Contract

Apr 2018 – Sep 2018 · 5 mos

Small multiples

Senior Software Engineer - Contract

Aug 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Sydney

Building a School Planning Assistance tool for the NSW State Government, to help School Planners decide what interventions are needed across the state to address changing demography, and other factors.
Working with React, Redux, Node JS, Ruby on Rails.

ReactReduxNode JSRuby on Rails

Peopleplan

Senior Software Engineer - Contract

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Surry Hills

Building an xAPI-compliant Learning Management System. Technologies we're using:
Laravel / PHP, React, Redux, MongoDB, Postgres, Docker, Ruby on Rails.
http://peopleplan.com.au/

LaravelPHPReactReduxMongoDBPostgres+2

Bbl digital

Partner and Lead Software Developer

Jun 2012 – May 2016 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Sydney

Sample projects:
http://www.themanchallenge.com.au/
Event-based online health and fitness program for men.
http://www.thebigvault.com.au/
Employee Relationship Management system for Brand Influence Group. Among other things, the system automatically manages the delegation of time- and location-sensitive jobs to BIG's several hundred casual employees, each of whom have unique and potentially variable hours of availability. The system has drastically decreased the amount of manual admin work required to allocate work to employees, improved issues regarding employee reliability and accountability for allocated tasks, and improved transparency with regards to how BIG measures employee performance.
Technologies I use include: Ruby / Rails, Javascript, jQuery, HTML 5, CSS 3, SASS, Bootstrap, React JS, Git, and more.

RubyRailsJavaScriptjQueryHTML 5CSS 3+5

Joshua paling

Freelance Web Developer

Jul 2008 – Jul 2012 · 4 yrs · Sydney

Lokanet

Software Developer

Jan 2004 – Jun 2008 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Sydney, Australia

In this role I was responsible for the development and maintenance of the Lokanet Component Framework itself (built in Omnis Studio), and client applications that utilised the framework.
It was my dad's company - a very small consultancy, which meant I got to take on a lot of scope fast, and get a lot of direct mentorship.