Summary
Stephen Neate is a Developer Co-Founder with 11 years of formal experience and two decades of hands-on web development, specialising in commercial and custom CMS/CRM solutions for the Australian real estate market. He leads primary development of RealOnline, a bespoke CMS that powers advanced property listing marketing, and co-founded several regional digital businesses including the Sunshine Coast community portal. A practical full-stacker, he combines PHP, JS (jQuery), PostgreSQL, XML/XHTML and CSS expertise with API migrations and strong web-standards and usability advocacy. His background in tourism and running a national wholesale travel business informs a user-focused, industry-aware approach to niche CMS projects. Comfortable wearing technical, product and project-management hats, he repeatedly turns domain knowledge into market-ready platforms. Based in Queensland, he prefers deep, product-led ownership over one-off engagements, building durable systems for specialised industries.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer