Myles Eftos
Staff Engineer And Evangelist at Amber Electric
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMyles Eftos is a Melbourne-based staff engineer and product-minded technologist with 19 years building full-stack web and IoT systems, currently shaping engineering and developer advocacy at Amber Electric. He blends hands-on coding (frontend and backend), product design, and technical leadership—having led teams as CTO and shipped event-driven microservices, Rails/React platforms, and iterative UX experiments. A published co-author and regular conference speaker on JavaScript, mobile, and identity, Myles is also an active tester and QA contributor in open-source projects, emphasizing rigorous test coverage. He brings a human-centered view to engineering—insisting developers participate in design—and pursues practical IoT work at home with ESP8266 and Thread/6LoWPAN protocols.
19 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Information Technology, Bachelor of Computer Science, Information Technology at The University of Western Australia
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Github contributions (5)
fakefs/fakefs
Sep 2009 - Sep 2009
A fake filesystem. Use it in your tests.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Myles primarily focused on adding and improving tests for the `fakefs` project, specifically targeting the `Dir` class methods. Their contributions included writing comprehensive tests for methods like `new`, `close`, `each`, `path`, `pos`, `read`, `rewind`, and `seek`. Furthermore, the user implemented tests for both instance and class methods within the `Dir` class, ensuring thorough coverage of the core functionality. The tests included various scenarios and edge cases to validate the correct behavior of the file system simulation.
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madpilot/hass-amber-electric
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
Home Assistant Component to pull the latest energy prices from Amber Electric
Contributions:2 reviews, 32 commits, 7 PRs in 3 months
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