Stephan Schwiebert
Backend Engineer at Briefcase
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolStephan Schwiebert is a Java-focused backend engineer with roughly 12 years of professional experience and nearly 20 years working in Germany and Australia, combining deep academic roots (PhD in Computational Linguistics) with large-scale product engineering. He spent eight years as a Staff Backend Engineer at Canva before moving to Briefcase, bringing expertise in performance optimization, platform reliability, and pragmatic tool adoption. Stephan is comfortable moving between research-driven problem solving and production-grade systems, often surfacing subtle algorithmic improvements that yield measurable latency and cost gains. Based in Sydney, he thrives on exploring new technologies and applying rigorous, research-informed approaches to backend architecture and performance tuning.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational Linguistics, PhD Computational Linguistics at University of CologneMaster of Arts (M.A.) Computational Linguistics German Language & Literature Computer Science, Master of Arts (M.A.) Computational Linguistics German Language & Literature Computer Science at University of Cologne, Germany
German, English
Github Skills (13)
oauth2-client10
xml10
pdf10
pdfbox10
oauth10
java10
scribe10
editing9
fonts9
apache8
zigbee5
backport1
patch1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Canva/sfntly
Jan 2019 - May 2021
A Library for Using, Editing, and Creating SFNT-based Fonts
Contributions:1 review, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 4 months
editingfontfonts
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