Joe Schmetzer
Technical Guardian For Engineering Excellence at Tactira
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolJoe Schmetzer is an engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across fintech, cybersecurity, and SaaS, currently leading engineering practice at DSTG and supporting early-stage platform builds. He blends hands-on principal engineering with people leadership—having led ~20 engineers, reorganised teams for clear ownership, and shipped cloud platforms on Azure and AWS for startups and scale-ups. Joe prioritises measurable delivery improvements using Accelerate/DORA metrics to expose constraints and enable data-informed trade-offs rather than process for its own sake. He’s equally comfortable designing low-level data and streaming systems (Kafka/Flink) and doing DevOps work like modernising build pipelines and release docs in well-known open-source projects. A pragmatic coach, he emphasises psychological safety and non-violent communication to reduce turnover and surface constructive conflict. Based in Canberra and available to start within four weeks, he thrives on turning complex legacy landscapes into predictable, autonomous delivery organisations.
14 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Specialisation, Culture-Driven Team Building, Specialisation, Culture-Driven Team Building at CourseraSt Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, SydneyBEc, Actuarial Studies, BEc, Actuarial Studies at Macquarie University
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Github Skills (8)
markdown10
markdown-it10
gradlew10
jekyll10
gradle10
build-automation9
documentation9
apache-kafka6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hamcrest/JavaHamcrest
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
Java (and original) version of Hamcrest
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 5 reviews, 73 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on upgrading the project's build process and documentation. They upgraded Gradle from version 4.5 to 4.10.2. They also modified the project's documentation, switching the format from HTML to Markdown and adding syntax highlighting. Finally, the user made changes to prepare the project for release.
matcherjavahamcrestassetbundle
extremetuesday/xtc-introduction
Mar 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 10 months
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