Jack Rose

Staff SRE, Developer Experience Melbourne, Australia

Curriculum vitae

Jack Rose: curriculum vitae

Staff SRE and DevEx tech lead. 9 years in software, previously mechanical engineering. Building tools and platforms engineers love.

Strongest with Go and TypeScript, capable with many more.

Work Experience

Jul 2022 – Present4 yrs 3 mos

Culture Amp

  1. Staff SREDeveloper Experience

    May 2024 – Present
    • Tech Lead since May 2026, when the team grew and split in two
    • Mentoring 3 engineers between graduate and mid-level (2023 to present)
    • Helping teams get their repos AI agent ready, self-service where possible (uplift skills and docs) and hands-on for the rest
    • Helped build an "agent workflows" tool running on Buildkite, and used it to build a custom PR reviewer quickly adopted by all teams
    • Designed and built our internal MCP server in late 2025 providing agents company context such as internal package docs, developer analytics, and engineering standards - 100 weekly active users (70% of engineers) within 3 months
    • Continued leading development of Hotel CLI, including adding a plugin system enabling other teams to contribute; 2 teams have plugins so far
  2. Senior SREDeveloper Experience Platform

    Jun 2023 – May 2024
    • Drove the local developer environments initiative end-to-end: user interviews, an engineering standard, and a data-led rollout focusing on high value repos reaching 80% of where work happens - reducing repo onboarding from days to minutes
    • As a team we cut new-joiner time-to-tenth-PR from 90 days to under 30 within a year
    • Led the development of Hotel, an internal Go CLI tool that automates setup and maintenance of developer laptops, including corporate proxy fixes, and self-service diagnostics (hotel doctor)
  3. Senior SREFrontend Foundations

    Jul 2022 – Jun 2023
    • Main contributor to our front-end hosting infrastructure; custom serverless Next.js hosting with branch previews (built on a fork of serverless-nextjs running on AWS CDK, CloudFront, Lambda, and S3)
    • Migrated customer-facing frontends to the new hosting with zero downtime
Sep 2021 – Jul 202211 mos

Mindset HealthSenior Software Engineer

  • Adding features and bug fixing on our React Native hypnotherapy app and web sales funnel (Firebase)
Jan 2021 – Aug 20218 mos

BellishSenior Software Engineer

  • React Native app for customisable knitting patterns
  • Built a new geometry aware pattern engine, so we could visualise and verify a pattern was correct and knittable; implemented for some garments before the company ran out of funding
Apr 2020 – Dec 20209 mos

Culture AmpSoftware Engineer

  • React/TypeScript (plus some Elm and Rails) on the newly acquired Performance product
  • Got the product working reliably behind China's Firewall; wrote a custom webpack plugin serving assets through jsDelivr CDN with SRI hashes, worked well for over two years until it was no longer needed
Jul 2018 – Mar 20201 yr 9 mos

Common CodeMelbourne AgencySoftware Developer

React/Django agency helping startups scale. Started as a junior, promoted to mid-level in January 2019. Notable projects:

  • Building materials tracking from manufacture in China to construction sites (Ynomia)
  • Admin dashboards for museum tours using BLE beacons (Art Processors)
  • Offline first web app tracking livestock through saleyards (Agrinous)
  • Shared data layer across a React Native app and React website (Good on You)
Feb 2017 – Jul 20181 yr 6 mos

SuperminimalPerthWeb Developer

  • First programming job, mostly small business WordPress sites, some Laravel and Vue
Jan 2016 – Oct 201610 mos

Travel and Volunteering (NZ and South America)

  • Build lead for the Kiwiburn effigy (NZ), and build crew at Fuego Austral (Argentina) (burning man regional events)
  • Volunteering at a nonprofit hostel in Bolivia (5 weeks) and a motorcycle-tour company in Colombia (7 weeks)
Nov 2011 – Dec 20154 yrs 2 mos

Fletcher BuildingAggregates

  1. Intern

    Nov 2011 – Nov 2012

    Working with health and safety manager on noise exposure

  2. Graduate Engineer

    Nov 2012 – Apr 2015

    Variety of responsibilities in Auckland, Christchurch and Melbourne

  3. Process Engineer

    Apr 2015 – Dec 2015

    Project-managed a $617k sand-dredge refurbishment

Jan 2009 – Nov 20112 yrs 11 mos

The White LadyFood TruckCook

  • 22 hrs/week while studying: food prep, customer service, training other staff
Dec 2007 – Nov 20081 yr

Trucks and TrailersDiesel WorkshopGeneral Hand

  • Servicing Mercedes and Freightliner trucks, plus some heavier work like clutch replacements and chassis repairs

Education

  • 2012 - BE (Mechanical), The University of Auckland

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