About
Dominic Black
Full Stack Developer based in Melbourne, Australia. Building web platforms and native mobile apps, end-to-end, for startups and teams that care about their craft.
Background
I'm Dominic Black, a full stack software developer based in Melbourne, Australia. I've been writing code professionally for more than eight years, and picking it apart as a hobbyist for longer than that. My work sits at the intersection of product, design, and engineering — I ship complete things, which usually means owning the stack from database schema up through the pixel-level UI.
I studied computer science at Swinburne University of Technology, and since then have spent most of my career with Melbourne-based startups. Startups are where I sharpened the skills I care about most: scoping ambiguous problems, making product calls, writing software that other people can read, and shipping on a schedule.
What I do
On the web side I build with Next.js, React, and TypeScript, usually against a Firebase or Postgres backend. I care deeply about performance — fast server rendering, small client bundles, no surprise layout shifts — and about SEO fundamentals that compound over time. On the mobile side I ship native apps for both iOS and Android, which means I'm comfortable in Swift, Kotlin, and React Native depending on what's right for the product.
Beyond frameworks, what I bring to a project is the whole loop: planning and scoping, architecture, implementation, QA, release, and the boring-but-important bits — analytics, observability, and the second release. I'm especially useful on greenfield builds where the requirements are fuzzy and someone needs to make a hundred small decisions quickly without accidentally painting the team into a corner.
Selected work
A cross-section of what Dominic Black has built recently:
Asteroid Tracker
2024Real-time 3D mission-control HUD for visualising near-Earth asteroids. Built with Three.js, physically-lit Earth, custom shaders, and a production-grade telemetry UI.
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Inked Up
2025AI-powered tattoo try-on app that lets you visualize any tattoo design on your body before committing. Upload a photo, pick a design, and preview in seconds.
Read the Inked Up case study →
FrameMorph
2026AI age progression video app that transforms your photos into stunning timelapse videos showing how your face changes over the years.
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CS Master
2025Daily developer training app for sharpening core computer science fundamentals through short, focused practice sessions.
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Space Cowboy
2025A relentless space shooter where every gunshot is your only means of movement. Survive wave after wave of alien horrors across the cosmos.
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Hanzi Hatch
2025Learn Chinese characters with an adorable virtual pet. Gamified Hanzi & Pinyin practice that makes studying Chinese interactive and fun.
Read the Hanzi Hatch case study →
Good Shot
2025AI-powered golf swing analyzer that provides tour-quality breakdowns and personalized coaching tips to improve your game.
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Daily Trivia Trainer
2025Mobile app for daily brain training through curated trivia challenges. Features spaced repetition, leaderboards, and social competitions.
Read the Daily Trivia Trainer case study →
AdaptMuse
2025AI-powered content generation platform that transforms ideas into polished, platform-optimized content. Features multi-format export and real-time collaboration.
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AlphaGist
2025High-fidelity data dashboards delivering real-time market insights with beautiful visualizations and motion design. Built for traders and analysts.
Read the AlphaGist case study →
Bill Consensus
2024Civic engagement platform aggregating government bills from five countries via automated web scraping, with threaded community discussions on each piece of legislation.
Read the Bill Consensus case study →
More projects, including private client work, are summarised on the home page.
How I work
Most of my engagements are either full project builds (I own the thing, ship it, and hand it over documented) or long-running retainer work with product teams. I'm comfortable operating solo, leading a small team, or slotting in alongside existing engineers — whichever the situation calls for. I prefer small, crisp feedback loops, honest estimates, and writing things down.
I'm currently taking on new work from Melbourne, remote and on-site, for clients anywhere in the world. If you're looking for someone who can hold the full picture of a product build — backend, frontend, mobile, infra, deploy — I'd love to hear what you're working on.
Get in touch
The fastest way to reach me is email at dominicblack.dev@gmail.com, or you can use the contact form on the home page. I aim to reply within one business day.