Summary
Chris Doran is a versatile software engineer with 9 years of full-stack experience and a passion for data-informed development. Based in Melbourne, Australia, he currently builds Bitcoin-native infrastructure at Block for Cash App, bringing together Python, JavaScript, and data-driven thinking. He previously led web engineering at Chainflip and contributed to Klarna's consumer banking platform, where he shipped scalable architectures and cross-team integrations in a monorepo setting. Early in his career at Kapiche, he advanced NLP tooling and delivered a 70% performance improvement by profiling Python and NumPy code. With a background in psychology from Griffith University and computer science from QUT, he values user-centric design and data analytics, and he enjoys collaborating across teams to turn complex requirements into reliable, secure systems. Open to conversations about crypto, data, and scalable web apps, he often signs off with orb bearer on his GitHub.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Psychological Science, 5.5, Bachelor's degree, Psychological Science, 5.5 at Griffith University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 6.2/7, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 6.2/7 at Queensland University of Technology
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