G'day 👋 I'm Farzad Hayat

G'day 👋 I'm Farzad Hayat

Founder @ Danzeira | Software Engineer | CS Graduate @ QUT

🇦🇺 Brisbane, Australia

I'm a recent Computer Science graduate from QUT (6.67 GPA) and the founder of Danzeira, a dance event management platform built for dance communities. I have hands-on experience as a Software Engineer Intern at Tanda, architecting and shipping production Ruby on Rails applications. Backed by 15 months of QA engineering and technical documentation at Tiny Technologies, alongside practical expertise with AWS microservices. In my free time, I enjoy partner dancing, martial arts, cooking, and travelling.

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Danzeira

Danzeira

A dance event ticketing and community platform built for partner dancers. Free for organisers, transparent for dancers.

Ruby on RailsPostgreSQLSQLiteStripeAWS S3HerokuCloudflareHotwireTailwind CSSSolid QueueResendSentryPlaywrightFull Stack
Compliance Document Library

Compliance Document Library

A new feature inside Tanda's Operations module for businesses to store, manage, and track organisational compliance documents.

Ruby on RailsPostgreSQLFull StackSoftware Engineering
AI E2E Test-Bench

AI E2E Test-Bench

A benchmark dataset and evaluation framework for AI agents generating Playwright end-to-end tests.

PythonPlaywrightHarbor FrameworkDockerQA AutomationLLMsGitHub CopilotClaude Code
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Work Experience

  • Founding Software Engineer

    Danzeira

    Brisbane, Australia

  • Software Engineering Intern

    Tanda

    Brisbane, Australia

  • Quality Assurance Engineer

    Tiny Technologies, TinyMCE

    Brisbane, Australia

  • Freelance IT Consultant

    Self-employed

    Remote

Founding Software Engineer

Danzeira

Brisbane, Australia

Feb 2026 - Present

Ruby on RailsPostgreSQLStripeAWS S3HerokuHotwireTailwind CSSSolid QueuePlaywrightFull StackProduct Development
  • Founded and built Danzeira (danzeira.com), a live dance event ticketing platform for the partner dance community (Brazilian Zouk, Lambada, Salsa). Organisers list and sell tickets for free, keeping 100% of revenue; dancers pay a transparent 5% booking fee via Stripe.
  • Built partner-dance-specific features including leader/follower role balancing with configurable caps, QR code check-in, push notifications, iCalendar exports, and a community organiser vetting system.
  • Architected the full stack on Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL, Stripe Connect, AWS S3 (Active Storage), Solid Queue for background jobs, Resend for transactional email, and deployed to Heroku with a separate worker dyno and Thruster TLS proxy.
  • Shipped a Hotwire Native Android app and wrote a full Playwright E2E test suite alongside Minitest unit and integration tests.
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Software Engineering Intern

Tanda

Brisbane, Australia

Dec 2025 - Jan 2026 (2 mos)

Ruby on RailsSoftware EngineeringFull StackPostgreSQL
  • Shipped the Compliance Document Library to production on Tanda’s Ruby on Rails platform — a feature serving 10,000+ businesses to securely store, manage, and track critical compliance documents.
  • Architected the PostgreSQL schema and automated email notification system for document expiry and required actions, ensuring quality through comprehensive Minitest tests and peer reviews in a two-person team.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Tiny Technologies, TinyMCE

Brisbane, Australia

Dec 2023 - Feb 2025 (1 yr 3 mos)

End-to-End TestingSmoke TestingExploratory TestingJiraGitHubTechnical Documentation
  • Ensured stability for TinyMCE (2M+ monthly downloads) via comprehensive end-to-end, smoke, and exploratory testing across 23 releases.
  • Executed cross-browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) and cross-platform (Web, Android, iOS) testing using LambdaTest and internal tooling.
  • Produced technical documentation using Antora, managed test cases and bug tracking using Jira, TestRail, and GitHub, and contributed to release planning and quality gates.

Freelance IT Consultant

Self-employed

Remote

Sep 2023 - Present

WordPressWindows ServerServer HostingEmail InfrastructureSEO
  • Built and deployed WordPress and cloud-hosted Windows Server infrastructure for Medics Online, a telehealth startup, supporting 800+ monthly patient appointment bookings from the company’s inception.
  • Configured server hosting, email infrastructure, DNS, and SEO to ensure reliable performance, security, and discoverability.

Education

  • Queensland University of Technology

    Bachelor of Information Technology (with Distinction), Computer Science major

    Jul 2021 - Jun 2026 (5 yrs)

    • 6.67 / 7.00 GPA; Recipient of 3x QUT Executive Dean’s Commendation for Academic Excellence.
    • Interests: Cloud Computing, Systems Programming, Cyber Security, Machine Learning, Blockchain Technology.
    • Activities: College of Excellence, QUT Entrepreneurship, Code Network, QUT AI & ML, UQCS, and UQ Dance.
    • Transferred from the University of Canterbury (Bachelor of Computer Science) in 2023.
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Certifications

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Jul 2025 - Jul 2028 (3 yrs 1 mo)

    • Earned in July 2025, demonstrating strong foundational expertise in cloud computing and core AWS services.
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Hackathons

QUT AIML Hackathon 2026

QUT AIML Hackathon 2026

QUT Gardens Point, Brisbane

Won Best Community Project Award for Project Pyro, an interactive wildfire simulation platform using real Queensland bushfire scenarios and cellular automata fire modelling.

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UQCS Hackathon 2023

UQCS Hackathon 2023

University of Queensland, Brisbane

Developed Empathese, an AI-powered conversation companion using GPT-4 and Whisper to help interpret messages from loved ones. Handled server-side development with SvelteKit and TypeScript.

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Code Network Winter Hackathon 2023

Code Network Winter Hackathon 2023

The Precinct, Brisbane

Won "Best Design and Aesthetics" for "Bots n Bids", a Flutter-based mobile app for QUT Robotics events. Built with Firebase to enable real-time scoring and team bidding.

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My Favorite Playlist

GitHub Repo Resume AWS Cloud Practitioner