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# Tara Buckley

Chief Operating Officer, National Digital

## Tara Buckley

*COO*

Tara Buckley is the Chief Operating Officer of National Digital, a software engineering consultancy based on the Gold Coast, Queensland. National Digital has shipped production platforms for Australian businesses since 2016. The company has worked with NRMA Parks and Resorts since January 2023. It consolidated the NRMA Parks and Resorts sites onto one Contentful headless CMS with a shared Next.js front end. Every change National Digital makes to a live system goes through version control with mandatory peer review and automated testing. Tara is responsible for the company's guides on platform engineering and headless CMS.

### Expertise

- Platform engineering
- Headless CMS

### Connect

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/taradbuckley/)

## Subjects

Tara's guides sit under [platform engineering](/platform-engineering/) and [headless CMS](/headless-cms/).

## Records

The [NRMA Parks and Resorts case study](/case-studies/nrma-parks-and-resorts/) describes the move to Contentful. The [about page](/about/) describes the company she helps run.

## Related

**Parent:**

- [Small team. Serious platforms.](/okf/about.md)