Summary
Alex Stevens is a Senior Software Engineer II based in Queensland with a decade of experience building games and interactive systems across studios and startups. Trained as a Mechatronics engineer, he blends hardware-aware problem solving with software craftsmanship, having shipped VR horror, serious training games, and commercial titles. He co-founded The Orphanage and has held roles at Epic Games and Bondi Labs, bringing both entrepreneurial grit and studio-scale engineering practices to production pipelines. At Gameloft Brisbane he focuses on high-quality game systems while remaining an active advocate for open source and community tooling. Outside of work he channels a love of game development into hands-on projects and balances intense technical focus with rock climbing and camping, reflecting a pragmatic, outdoors-minded approach to creative problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Patricks College
BE Mechatronics, BE Mechatronics at The University of Queensland
Middle School, Middle School at Tin Can Bay State School
Junior School, Junior School at Geelong Christian College