Jarred Steenvoorden
R&D Software Manager at FE Technologies
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJarred Steenvoorden is an R&D Software Manager based in Greater Melbourne with 11 years of experience delivering embedded, web and mobile solutions across product-focused teams. He combines hands-on engineering—ranging from ARM microcontroller firmware and ZigBee/Bluetooth protocols to ASP.NET Core and modern front-end frameworks—with people leadership, having introduced code review practices, CI workflows and cross-site recruitment and mentoring. Jarred has a track record of turning novel ideas into products, including merging low-level hardware communication with modern UIs and migrating source control systems at scale. An active maker in the mechanical keyboard community, he’s contributed keymaps and device support to the popular QMK firmware, reflecting a practical curiosity for IoT and embedded ergonomics. With dual degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from RMIT and a habit of running technical presentations, he keeps teams engaged while pushing continuous improvement.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, High Distinction average, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, High Distinction average at RMIT University
Github Skills (21)
keyboard-input10
c-language10
qmk-firmware10
firmware10
qmk10
c1110
keymaps10
keyboard10
c1710
keyboard-layout10
keymapping10
sys10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
rgb-controller9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Jul 2018 - Sep 2019
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jarred's contributions primarily involve creating and modifying keymaps for various keyboard layouts within the QMK firmware. They added support for new keyboard models such as the Planck, DZ60, Satan, XD75, crkbd, atreus, ergotravel, org60, plaid, leaf60, romac, and tada68. These keymaps define the functionality and layout of the keyboards, including layer management and custom keycodes. The user also updated userspace configuration files to enable features and address compatibility issues.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
JarredSteenvoorden/azure-storage-web-client
Aug 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 4 months
containersstorage-containersazure-blobblob-storageblob
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