Louis Stekhoven-Smith

Senior Software Engineer | Team Lead at EverestEngineering
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Greater Melbourne Area, AU
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Louis is definitely the type of developer I always enjoy to work with: fast learner, enthusiastic about technology, passionate about problem solving, out-of-the-box thinking and open-minded. Louis is the person who can think of the ideal solution of problems and have the courage to make it happening regardless how hard it looks like at the beginning. Decreased the time of our flagship product build pipeline from 2 hours to 20 minutes is one of the astonishing examples.

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Credentials

  • Becoming a Leader
    RMIT University
    Apr, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Test-Driven Development
    Lynda.com
    Mar, 2017
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • EverestEngineering
    • Australia
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Senior Software Engineer | Team Lead
      • Aug 2021 - Present

      ############################# Client Seen Culture (Early stage startup) - current Tech lead of 5 person team, building out the initial sass platform. Performing product management and project management with founder and leadership Establishing framework for Seen Cultures engineering culture Picked tech stack suitable for the business Leading/mentoring team in day to day development and design Managing deadlines/expectations with team capabilities Fullstack development work Tech Stack typescript, tailwind, react/next.js, tRPC, Vercel(deployments), Planetscale(mysql), Cognito, AWS, Github actions, Approach vertical slice architecture, domain driven design, functional programming, classical testing ############################# Client Reejig - 1 year 2months Tech/Team lead for a newly formed team of 9 Simultaneously acting as product owner for a few months Manage customer/business expectations with engineering capabilities Mentor developers in career growth Full stack development on legacy/green field business critical products Address technical/architectural debt Advised on engineering culture improvements and communication improvements Engaged with executive and senior leadership on product development and ideation Facilitate workshops to improve development teams' knowledge Facilitate technical standards Tech Stack vue3 typescript nodejs php golang elasticsearch buildkite docker terraform AWS MySQL ############################# Client Berst - 1 month Video conferencing startup Identified and fixed key performance issues and architectural issues. Documented existing codebase. Made recommendations on key strategic technical decisions. Tech Stack Vue3 javascript node.js ############################# Client SelfWealth - 3 months Improve engineering processes and practices to enable horizontal scaling of engineering teams. Reduced technical onboarding from +1 week to 1-2hours. Tech Stack C# .net azuredevops docker AWS bash powershell Show less

  • Oracle
    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Software Engineer
      • May 2020 - Aug 2021

      Focused on driving organisational change, championing DevOps culture. Developing CI/CD framework and infrastructure and working within a team of engineers to build out a 'search as a service' platform for internal teams. Achievements/Responsibilities* Affected organizational change. Introduced DevOps culture by driving conversations between key stakeholders from software engineers to senior directors.* Own and maintain several services, reviewing code changes assisting with production issues, improving monitoring and reliability and adding new features. * Maintained Jenkins CI/CD servers (Oracle Linux). Automated most maintenance, consult/assist developers in the creation of new pipelines and resolution of issues.* Undertake development work and architectural design/discussions building out a search as a platform backed by Elasticsearch and oracle database. * Hosted fortnightly engineering debrief, encouraging developers to give talks and giving talks myself on new projects, improvements made etc.Tech StackJava, Spring Boot, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Elasticsearch, GraphQL, docker, docker-compose, Kubernetes, OCI, Jenkins, Ansible, Bash, Linux, PCP Show less

    • Junior Software Engineer/DevOps
      • Sep 2019 - May 2020

      Focused on improving developer workflows, CI infrastructure, application stability and scalability.Achievements/Responsibilities Developer* Own and maintain several critical services, reviewing code changes and occasionally add new features.DevOps*Reduced CI pipeline feedback time from 1h 30min+ to 12min. *Codified CI build node configuration and CI test suites with Ansible and Jenkins pipeline.*Manage and support CI build nodes for developer teams.*Improved stability of legacy test suites reducing flakey test failures by 70%*Dockerized large legacy application, providing a build time and run time service for development teams. Allowing teams to easily reproduce test suite failures locally. *Present new tools and workflows to engineering teams, gaining 99% buy in within the developer teams. *Improve metrics monitoring and alerting on owned services. Reducing alerting fatigue. Organise and run the fortnightly Engernining debrief/brown bag. Show less

    • Graduate Software Engineer/Scrum Master - Aconex
      • Jul 2018 - Sep 2019

      As scrum master I actively support and facilitate our teams agile processes. Engaging the team to continuously develop and improve upon them. Defining definition of ready, definition of done, running daily stand-up, backlog grooming, sprint planning and sprint retrospectives. The team consists of a diverse group of senior software engineers, working across the full devops life-cycle: development, configuration, deployment.As a software engineer - major projects completedFedramp certificationThe team successfully delivered extensive security upgrades and completed auditing processes to position Aconex as an industry leader with the only FedRAMP complaint SAAS product in the construction and engineering domain. FedRAMP simplifies security for the digital age by providing a standardized approach to security for the cloud and is required to work with US government clients.Reliability, availability and performanceIdentifying key architectural areas for improvement and strategies for uplifting legacy services. Engaging with the larger engineering department to deliver business value to both the engineering team and our products end users. Show less

  • The Social Research Centre
    • Australia
    • Research Services
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Team Leader
      • Mar 2011 - Jun 2018

      I have been responsible for training hundreds of employees on company policy and procedure, as well as ensuring company ISO compliance is met and maintained. I have worked closely with a team of supervisors and management to provide staff development training, which has helped The Social Research Centre position itself as a world-class research institute. I have been responsible for training hundreds of employees on company policy and procedure, as well as ensuring company ISO compliance is met and maintained. I have worked closely with a team of supervisors and management to provide staff development training, which has helped The Social Research Centre position itself as a world-class research institute.

  • RMIT Programming Club
    • Australia
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • President - Founder
      • Mar 2017 - Apr 2018

      I co-founded The Programming Club due to a desire to see students become more engaged within the technology community. I also wanted to deliver a channel in which students could learn the critical industry related skills they are missing. During this time I grew the club from 0 to 150 official members. Working closely with my team of executives, we delivered workshops on git, bash and TDD. We also create group projects, host industry talks and run weekly meetups. I am now in the process of mentoring the next generation of RMIT students to carry the torch. Show less

  • ANZ
    • Australia
    • Banking
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Solution Consultant
      • Jun 2017 - Nov 2017

      I lead an interdisciplinary team in conjunction with the RMIT Fast Track program to tackle the problem: "60% of businesses cease to operate in the first year". During this fast-pace program, we engaged in ideation and design thinking with a strong focus on end user feedback and agile iteration. Through countless interviews with entrepreneurs, CEOs and small business owners we were able develop a viable business solution as well as create connections with Startup Victoria and the Wade Institute. All working together towards creating a digital platform that provides networking and mentorship opportunities to up and coming entrepreneurial talent. During the final presentation to ANZ we were awarded with best pitch. Show less

  • RMIT University
    • Australia
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Computer Science - Ambassador
      • Mar 2017 - Oct 2017

      I spoke at careers events to excite and inspire students to chase after what it is that excites them. In that vain, I provided guidance and advice relating to questions on Computer Science at RMIT. I spoke at careers events to excite and inspire students to chase after what it is that excites them. In that vain, I provided guidance and advice relating to questions on Computer Science at RMIT.

  • Invent The World
    • Melbourne
    • Teacher/Mentor
      • Sep 2016 - Oct 2017

      I mentored young, budding computer scientists in delivering project based content that allowed for fun, goal-orientated learning. Giving the tools my students needed to learn, create and grow into the amazing young people they strive to be. I mentored young, budding computer scientists in delivering project based content that allowed for fun, goal-orientated learning. Giving the tools my students needed to learn, create and grow into the amazing young people they strive to be.

  • Freelance
    • Melbourne
    • Web Developer
      • May 2016 - Jan 2017

      I utilized web technologys and tools such as HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and various CMS to build effective sites for small bussiness. Liaising between clients and designers I was able to deliver on time and within requirements and develop strong relationships. I utilized web technologys and tools such as HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and various CMS to build effective sites for small bussiness. Liaising between clients and designers I was able to deliver on time and within requirements and develop strong relationships.

Education

  • RMIT University
    Bachelor of Computer Science, Software Development
    2015 - 2017

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