Nathan Stephen Dunn

Consultant CTO & Software Engineering Lead

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About Nathan

I help startups and scaleups build great technology teams and software products.

Passionate about finding the perfect solutions to complex problems. I believe good code is like good poetry - elegant, succinct, and with it's own unique beauty.

After working with several high growth technology startups I decided to start a consultancy practice focused on providing services normally provided by a full time CTO but on a more flexible, as needed basis.

Over the years I've had the privilege of writing web, desktop and mobile software used in on-line marketplaces; cryptocurrency trading; virtual reality; procedural content generation; video games; web mapping; bioinformatics; securities trading; and business process automation.

My services include:

Vetting, Hiring, and Training of full time development staff
Leadership of local and international teams
External review (Technology, Scalability, Best Practices, Staffing)
Technology Team Process Improvement & Roadmapping
Strategy / planning sessions
Implementation plan preparation
Contract development
Mentoring and one on one conversations with development staff
Sourcing of appropriate staff or consultants

This includes helping companies vet and manage candidates appropriate for their level of scale, mentoring, advisory services, system design, product design and any other function that would ordinarily be handled by an in house CTO.

I have been building software products since childhood and building great software engineering teams for most of my professional life. Whilst my passion is for start ups and scale ups, I can also help larger companies encourage innovation within their teams.

Over this time I have helped many technology companies succeed, at many levels including as a software engineer; full stack developer; software engineering team lead; CTO; technology consultant and business advisor

My Services

Technology Strategy

As an experienced CTO I have a deep understanding of the many ways technology can help your business.

I am available to assist in meetings and help you and your staff come up with new ideas, and strategies on how best to implement these.

External Review

As an independent consultant I can prepare external reviews and provide recommendations relating to technology, scalability and staffing matters.

You may wish to present these to your board, potential investors, or for use in due diligence.

Hiring Assistance

I offer a complete hiring package, including sourcing, vetting, technical testing and video interviews to ensure your next hire is the right person for the job.

My technical expertise allows me to be more effective than most recruiters who may not have technical background.

Leadership & Mentoring

The best way to learn is from someone who has been there before. I can guide your staff on what they need to learn and do to become the best engineers they can.

Video mentoring, code review, and assistance with documentation are just some of the ways I can help.

Project Management

Many years leading teams at Startups, Scaleups and Larger Companies has equipped me with the experience to lead teams well.

SCRUM, KanBan, and Waterfall are some of the methodologies I use to lead local and international teams.

Contract Development

With 10 years+ experience in industry I am able to develop mobile, web, and backend systems that last.

Whilst I consider myself technology agnostic I prefer to work in Java, PHP, Angular, Vue.js, React, React Native, JavaScript and Node.js.

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Personal Projects

Selected Experience

2018 - Now

Consultant CTO

2018

Chief Technology Officer at Glamazon

Glamazon operates Australia's largest freelance beauty stylist marketplace, and is pioneering the shared-economy model for at-home beauty services in Australia.

Technologies: Java, AWS, SQS, EC2, WordPress, JavaScript, React, React-Native, Play Framework, CI/CD, DevOps, Bash, Google Cloud

2017 - 2018

Chief Technology Officer at HelloCars

HelloCars is Australia's first nationwide, fully online used car dealership that gives Australians a safer, more convenient and better-value way to buy and sell used cars, without the hassle.

Technologies: PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, Angular.js, AWS, SQS, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, New Relic, HTML, SCSS, Typescript, jQuery, MySQL

2015 - 2017

Senior Software Engineer at World Manager

My work at World Manager was largely focused on mobile, implementing a horizontally scalable push notification service as well as improving the architecture and UX of our white-label Android application that serves over 200 brands.

Technologies: Android, Java, Scala, PHP, AWS, SQS, SNS, Google Cloud, Protobuf

2014 - 2015

Software Engineering Team Lead at Freelancer.com

Freelancer.com is the worlds largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by total number of users and projects posted.

My headline project at Freelancer.com was to lead the team in charge of improving user profile pages.

Following the success of this project the scope of our team was widened to encompass the entire Freelancer side of the business, including community pages and profile QA

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular.js, Python, GoLang, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Thrift

Education

2019

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

This short course certifies me as a SCRUM Master (which I had previously been acting as for several years but had not yet gone through the full course).

2016

Virtual Reality Design Bootcamp

This short course at Academy Xi taught me how to best design for AR/VR and the factors involved.

2009

Bachelor of Science (Hons), UNSW

An Honors degree taught me how to research effectively in fundamental science.

Extra curricular: Treasurer; Purchasing Officer; Gear Officer; Dive boat operator; Reef trip organiser, UNSW Underwater club

2009

Diploma in Innovation Management, UNSW

This course taught me how to best commercialise technology.

Extra curricular: Marketing Director, Entrepreneurs in Science.

2006

Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Newcastle

Foundational training in computer science serves me to this day.

Extra curricular: Events coordinator, University of Newcastle Computer Society

2006

Small Business Management Cert IV.

All areas of small business were covered in this course.

Portfolio

Haunted Maze (Unity3D - Android / iOS)

For other less visual projects please see "Accomplishments" at the bottom of my LinkedIn profile

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+61 423 599 374

Email

nathanstephendunn@gmail.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathansdunn/

The STACK

What do we the STACK? The best we use for code and technologies needed to building some great projects and should they be fun, we can engage.

HTML5/CSS, JavaScript and SASS/SCSS. Used for just about everything we need for frontend. I use a range of Frameworks for a range of JavaScript to speed up and more maintainability.
Frameworks of frontend include Vue.js, React.js, Angular.js, React-Native (guess which the one out)
PHP is my bread of butter. Laravel is my favorite PHP Framework.
node.js (ie. JavaScript)
C#, Unity3D I have built a range of mobile, desktop, and VR. Some of my newer creatures are now for Fenrir Interactive.
Java Spring (or Play), as well as Android
Android architecture as MVP
MySQL or PostGreSQL - many for relational database.
NoSQL, DynamoDB and MongoDB
Cloud - Mostly AWS but also Azure.
DevOps - CloudFormation building infrastructure, travis-ci, bitrise.io and gitlab

The PROJECT

I have built well over 10 years as a developer, some of my best includes:

C#, Unity3D, Android, iOS

Haunted Maze

Help the Princess explore the Haunted Maze! Tap to move. Difficulty and number of ghosts increases the further you get in.... Try not to get caught! Make your way to the ladder to advance.

Vue.js, nodejs, CloudFormation, DynamoDB

Digital Forms Statement

A digital forms system rated for 200k users

PHP, MySQL, Python, RabbitMQ

Freelancer.com Profile Pages

New UX, infrastructure and 16M profile pages

Android

World Manager Android

A 200 brands for the World Manager Android App, using best practices with architecture for MVP

C#, Unity3D, VR

Let's Bond VR

A Virtual Reality Chemistry game that simulates Molecular Physics interactions between molecules. Made with Unity3D for Vive and Oculus Touch

PHP, MySQL, ExtJS

Geospatial Genetics

A tool to help scientists visualise the spread of organisms containing different gene markers over web map, cross referenced with environmental data such as wind and temperature in the region as well as in depth gene sequence information.

C#, RunUO

DunGen, a procedural dungeon generator for Ultima Online

DunGen creates themed, configurable, randomised dungeons, filled with themed monsters that increase in difficulty up to the point of a final boss encounter

PHP, MySQL, Gitlab, Grafana, Graphite

Gitphite

A mashup of Grafana, Graphite, and Gitlab that annotates source code changes between deployments over the top of performance instrumentation graphs and metrics.