Summary
Stefan Bird is a Principal Engineer based in Melbourne with over 14 years of hands-on experience and a 20+ year track record designing and building large enterprise-grade applications. He specializes in TypeScript and PHP while bringing deep expertise across UX, front- and back-end development, databases, security, microservices and system administration. At PERSUIT® he transformed delivery culture—raising build success from 4% to 94% and shrinking release cycles from two weeks to one hour—while redesigning authorization and automated testing to harden security and observability. As founder and director of Emigrad he has run product, operations and go-to-market end-to-end, blending technical leadership with commercial ownership. He holds advanced research training (PhD) from RMIT and is known for tackling diverse problems from real-time fault-tolerant communications to computer vision, pairing creativity with rigorous engineering processes.
14 years of coding experience
PhD, PhD at RMIT University