Alex Stonehouse
Principal Engineer at LIFX
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolAlex Stonehouse is a Principal Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of full-stack experience delivering everything from customer-facing IoT apps to enterprise-grade encryption software. He leads mobile and cross-platform efforts at LIFX, driving a fortnightly release cadence, a Kotlin Multiplatform migration, and close coordination across firmware, hardware and cloud teams. Known for raising engineering quality through ReactiveExtensions (RxJava/RxSwift), VIPER, and rigorous TDD, he has driven app code coverage from single digits to 75% and introduced CI and automated releases. Alex brings practical security and cryptography experience from regulated environments, having built software trusted by banks and government clients. He combines product-facing design work with deep technical stewardship, often pairing hands-on development with stakeholder-facing technical leadership. Outside typical engineering metrics, his background in health-science research and statistics informs a data-driven approach to feature prioritisation and measurement.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Postrgraduate Diploma in Health Science Programme Evaluation Health Economics Research Methodology Public Health, Postrgraduate Diploma in Health Science Programme Evaluation Health Economics Research Methodology Public Health at The University of AucklandBachelor of Health Science Public Health Community Development Statistics Public Policy, Bachelor of Health Science Public Health Community Development Statistics Public Policy at University of AucklandHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Middleton High School, Tampa, Florida
English, German
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Github Skills (90)
ruby10
automation10
midi10
lifx10
music10
android-apps10
fastlane10
android10
mobile10
audiokit10
ios10
react-native10
audio9
swift9
libgit29
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stonehouse/SwiftUI-demo
Sep 2019 - Aug 2022
Demo app using SwiftUI that works with Combine.
Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 11 months
demo-appswift-composable-architecturecombineswiftios
LIFX/RxFlow
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
RxFlow is a navigation framework for iOS applications based on a Reactive Flow Coordinator pattern
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 3 months
coordinatorrxflowiosflow-coordinatorcoordinator-pattern
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