Louis Stekhoven-smith
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at EverestEngineering
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolLouis Stekhoven-smith is a Senior Software Engineer and team lead based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building full‑stack SaaS products and maturing engineering organisations. He combines hands‑on TypeScript/React/Next.js and backend experience (Node, Go, Java, C#) with DevOps and CI/CD expertise to ship reliable, testable systems and reduce onboarding and pipeline feedback times. Louis has led teams from early‑stage startups to large enterprises, acting as tech lead, product owner and mentor while codifying engineering culture, architecture and delivery standards. He’s pragmatic about tradeoffs—choosing stacks and vertical‑slice/domain‑driven approaches that fit business needs—and skilled at fixing performance and reliability issues in short windows. Outside of work he pursues adventurous goals (MMA, diving, helicopter flying and sailing), reflecting a restless curiosity that drives both technical learning and team development.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Software Development, 3.9, Bachelor of Computer Science, Software Development, 3.9 at RMIT University
English
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Github Skills (61)
html-editor10
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rte9
bbcode9
contenteditable9
debian9
ckeditor9
wysiwyg9
rich-text-editor9
editorjs8
mongodb8
text-editing8
ace-editor8
summernote8
nodejs8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LouisKnuckles/Dank_Memes_SE_PT
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 113 commits, 29 PRs in 2 months
LouisKnuckles/Zendesk_Ticket_Viewer
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 release, 13 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 months
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