Chris Lienert is a Principal Engineer based in Melbourne with 14 years of experience bridging front-end engineering, UX design, and strategic delivery across startups and large enterprises. He has a proven track record leading and scaling teams—most recently in senior technical and management roles at StarRez, Iress, Servian, Versent, and CXA—while also stepping into hands-on principal consulting and engineering leadership. Comfortable shifting between architecture, product-focused delivery, and people development, he excels at turning complex business requirements into polished user-facing systems. His background in building internal teams from scratch and unifying front-end practices highlights a practical blend of process, craft and mentorship. Notably, he pairs a business and information-systems degree with deep front-end/UX experience, bringing both commercial insight and design empathy to technical decisions.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business (BBus) Management and Information Systems, Bachelor of Business (BBus) Management and Information Systems at Edith Cowan University
Contributions:12 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
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Chris Lienert - Principal Engineer at SmartAIConnect