Daniel Givney

Sydney, Australia

Experienced Software Developer and IT Manager.

Experience

Chief Technology Officer

Managing an engineering team of developers, building a technology based energy industry challenger brand.

June 2019 - May 2021

Chief Product Officer

Managed an engineering team of developers, designers, product mangagers & delivery service managers tasked with maintaining and improving a financial services software system.

November 2017 - November 2018

Head of IT Operations

Designed and built a multi-regional, secure financial services backend and mobile app to instantly accept & process finance applications at the point of sale.

December 2015 - November 2017

Senior Software Developer

Developer/Analyst working in a small IT team developing online products that deliver communication and leadership training to the dental industry internationally.

April 2011 - November 2015

Freelance Software Developer

Worked closely with a number of clients as a digital resources manager & web developer on various short to mid-term contracts.

February 2005 - April 2011

Portfolio

Nectr

Nectr is building utility-scale solar farms in conjuntion with Hanwha Energy Australia, and selling renewable electricty plans to Australian Households.

2020

Brighte

At Brighte I designed and built a highly-available, multi-regional system for an end-to-end finance & payments solution for household energy and home improvements. The system was designed and delivered as a traditional web platform / public website, which was further extended with Android & iOS apps to securely accept finance applications at the point of sale.

2016

Prime Practice

The Prime Practice website was originally launched in 2007. In 2014 we were tasked to bring this site up to date with a more modern technology stack and merge it with another of the company's codebases.

2015

Skills

Programming Languages & Platforms
Focus
  • 15+ years Software Development and Systems Design
  • Hyperscale, Durable System Architecture
  • Cross-platform Web, Mobile, Desktop
  • Scalable Software Testing & Automation
  • Building diverse, Cross-funcational Agile Teams

Interests

Although much of my free time is taken up by programming projects - I do have a number of interests outside the industry which include Running, Sailing and Foreign Languages.