Paul Colby
Head Of Engineering at Digital Agriculture Services (DAS)- Claim this Profile
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Tristan Penman
Paul is definitely one of the most talented engineers that I have had the privilege of working with. As a member of our team, he brought deep technical expertise, creative problem solving skills, and an amazing eye for detail. He played an important role as a mentor for myself, and continues to do so for other members of our team. He does all of this while managing to deliver on time, and without unnecessary technical compromises.
Rick Measham
In his time with us, Paul proved to be an extremely capable and professional developer. Paul provided us with expertise on the Windows platform where we have little in-house experience. He was able to accurately scope and develop the required solutions, but was also able to fit well into our consultative, reiterative development style. His professionalism was beyond reproach and he fit into our team extremely well. Paul continually looked beyond what was asked of him and worked to provide solutions that provide our customers with amazing experiences. I would not hesitate to work with Paul again.
Tristan Penman
Paul is definitely one of the most talented engineers that I have had the privilege of working with. As a member of our team, he brought deep technical expertise, creative problem solving skills, and an amazing eye for detail. He played an important role as a mentor for myself, and continues to do so for other members of our team. He does all of this while managing to deliver on time, and without unnecessary technical compromises.
Rick Measham
In his time with us, Paul proved to be an extremely capable and professional developer. Paul provided us with expertise on the Windows platform where we have little in-house experience. He was able to accurately scope and develop the required solutions, but was also able to fit well into our consultative, reiterative development style. His professionalism was beyond reproach and he fit into our team extremely well. Paul continually looked beyond what was asked of him and worked to provide solutions that provide our customers with amazing experiences. I would not hesitate to work with Paul again.
Tristan Penman
Paul is definitely one of the most talented engineers that I have had the privilege of working with. As a member of our team, he brought deep technical expertise, creative problem solving skills, and an amazing eye for detail. He played an important role as a mentor for myself, and continues to do so for other members of our team. He does all of this while managing to deliver on time, and without unnecessary technical compromises.
Rick Measham
In his time with us, Paul proved to be an extremely capable and professional developer. Paul provided us with expertise on the Windows platform where we have little in-house experience. He was able to accurately scope and develop the required solutions, but was also able to fit well into our consultative, reiterative development style. His professionalism was beyond reproach and he fit into our team extremely well. Paul continually looked beyond what was asked of him and worked to provide solutions that provide our customers with amazing experiences. I would not hesitate to work with Paul again.
Tristan Penman
Paul is definitely one of the most talented engineers that I have had the privilege of working with. As a member of our team, he brought deep technical expertise, creative problem solving skills, and an amazing eye for detail. He played an important role as a mentor for myself, and continues to do so for other members of our team. He does all of this while managing to deliver on time, and without unnecessary technical compromises.
Rick Measham
In his time with us, Paul proved to be an extremely capable and professional developer. Paul provided us with expertise on the Windows platform where we have little in-house experience. He was able to accurately scope and develop the required solutions, but was also able to fit well into our consultative, reiterative development style. His professionalism was beyond reproach and he fit into our team extremely well. Paul continually looked beyond what was asked of him and worked to provide solutions that provide our customers with amazing experiences. I would not hesitate to work with Paul again.
Credentials
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GitHub Profile Ownership Verified (Ranked in top 0.68%) as of 2021-12-04
TechieRankDec, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Certificate in Leadership and Strategy
Australian Institute of ManagementMay, 2023- Nov, 2024 -
Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator
The Linux FoundationAug, 2014- Nov, 2024
Experience
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DAS (Digital Agriculture Services)
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Australia
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head Of Engineering
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Apr 2022 - Present
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Whispir
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Australia
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Enterprise Architect
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Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
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Backup365
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Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Technology Officer
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Aug 2018 - Jun 2021
Responsible for all aspects of technology, from solution architecture and design, to product delivery, operations and support, partner and vendor management, budgeting, COGS management, etc. * Successfully drove technology re-architecture to support rapid delivery and maintainance, with 10x data growth * Delivered major new projects, including new SharePoint/OneDrive backup solution, a dedicated customer portal, and integration with a second Australian distributor * Negotiated significant COGS reduction, under NDA, with industry-leading cloud services provider * Conducted multiple experimental / research projects with RMIT student teams * Received iAwards 2021 Startup of the Year - Merit Award Show less
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Sinch MessageMedia
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Australia
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Telecommunications
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100 - 200 Employee
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Solutions Architect / Product Technical Lead
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Feb 2015 - Jul 2018
Designed and oversaw the implementation of MessageMedia's world-class "Next Generation" messaging gateway - a highly available, massively scalable, high performance solution on Amazon AWS, which now powers all of the organisation's worldwide messaging products.Then went on to design and prototype multiple new products and services, focused primarily on artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and mobile payments.Exposed to many, many core technologies, such as: Aurora, Bitbucket, Codacy, DynamoDB, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, ElastiCache, Git, Java, JSON, JSON Schema, Kinesis, Lambda, Lex, 'Linux (Amazon Linux)', Logstash, Memcache, MySQL, Python, RabbitMQ, RAML, Redis, Redshift, SNS, SQS, Subversion, and Swagger. Show less
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Senior Developer / Technical Lead
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Dec 2010 - Feb 2015
Joined MessageMedia as a Senior C++ Engineer to re-architect and rebuild a critical internal system which was beginning to fail under rapidly growing loads. After a very successful delivery of a high performance solution that exceeded all requirements, moved in to the broader delivery team as a technical team lead, and quickly established expert domain knowledge.Exposed to many, many core technologies, such as: Bitbucket, Boost, C, C++, Codacy, DynamoDB, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, ElastiCache, Git, JSON, JSON Schema, 'Linux (Amazon Linux, CentOS, Debian, RHEL)', Logstash, Memcache, MySQL, Performance Co-Pilot (PCP), PHP, Qpid, QtTest, RabbitMQ, RAML, Redis, Redshift, SNS, SQS, Subversion, Swagger, and VirtualBox. Show less
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MailGuard Pty Ltd
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Australia
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Computer and Network Security
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Aug 2010 - Dec 2010
A successful, short-term contract to develop custom software for integration of MailGuard services with a number of Microsoft products (Exchange Server, Active Directory and Office). ActiveDirectory, C/C++, C#, Exchange Server, NSIS, Subversion, Outlook. A successful, short-term contract to develop custom software for integration of MailGuard services with a number of Microsoft products (Exchange Server, Active Directory and Office). ActiveDirectory, C/C++, C#, Exchange Server, NSIS, Subversion, Outlook.
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SuperCoders IT Recruitment
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Melbourne, Australia
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Senior Software Engineer
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Feb 2006 - Jul 2010
Developed and launched a number of products and services, from bounty-based recruitment web portals, to embedded storefront kiosks and linked-data / semantic web browsers. Responsible for complete stacks, from XEN (and eventually Amazon EC2) virtualisations to back and front-end development in both browsers and native cross-platform desktop applications. Also responsible for all in-house IT for the small business, including routers, DNS, mail servers etc. AJAX, C/C++, DB2, EC2, Flex/AIR, GPG, gSOAP, jQuery, Linux (Debian), Mac OS X, NSIS, PHP, Qt, S3, SimpleDB, SQLite, SQS, Subversion, VirtualBox, VMWare, Windows, XEN. Show less
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Telstra
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Australia
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Research Specialist
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Jan 2000 - Dec 2005
Joined the Telstra Research Labs fresh out of University, and quickly established myself as a self-driven full-stack developer, especially good at diving into new unknown poorly-documented technologies. Developed the core technology behind a number of market-leading prototypes and trials, such as the SMS barcode ticketing trial for Ticketmaster7 and Telstra Dome, and DVB-H demonstrations for the Commonwealth Games. Successfully lead a small cross-functional team to develop a highly-converged cross-platform messaging system. Exposed to a great number of technologies, such as C/C++, gcc, MFC, Linux (Debian), PostgreSQL, Symbian C++, Visual C++, MFC, PocketPC, SmartPhone, Subversion, SymbianOS, Window CE, Window 2000/XP. Show less
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James Cook University
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Australia
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Computer Science Tutor
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Feb 1998 - Nov 1999
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Education
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1996 - 1999
James Cook University
BComp (Hons I), Computer Science
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