About me

Hello 👋, Welcome!

Story

My name is Dale and I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, 🇺🇸. I live in a tiny apartment amongst the chaotic and messy streets of the city, it's not for everyone but, I love it.

I started my journey in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺. In 2015, I was lucky enough to join a fast-growing start-up A Cloud Guru as the first employee. A Cloud Guru went from one person to over 600 in 4 years. I (and eventually my team) worked on what I think to be some of the most interesting/critical parts of the platform, such as; video delivery & transcoding, course management, billing & subscription, content search, video transcriptions, etc.

After around 4 years of working within / leading a product team, I wanted to try something different; this is when I moved to Austin, Texas and started leading the DevOps team. The purpose of this team was to provide the 19 product teams with best practices; these were made available through a Serverless Golden Path.

In 2021 A Cloud Guru got acquired by Pluralsight in the 2nd largest tech acquisition in Australian history. What a crazy time.

Now in 2022 / 2024, I am working for another Serverless start-up, Vendia. Vendia is an inter-company data sharing platform, that uses a permissioned blockchain. Vendia is founded by the creator of AWS Lambda, Tim Wagner.