Stephen Youngs
Self Employed at The SXEmacs Project
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Youngs is a versatile technologist and project lead with over 16 years of experience spanning small business ownership, retail IT management, and long-term stewardship of the SXEmacs open-source editor. After an 18-year period as a primary caregiver, he re-entered the workforce bringing practical people skills, strong common-sense judgement, and hands-on experience debugging, extending and mentoring around open-source projects. He combines customer-facing sales and admin experience from banking, insurance and retail with deep, long-running involvement in configurable development tools and IDEs. Stephen is self-employed and based in Brisbane, offering adaptability and a preference for flexible arrangements to balance professional work with family responsibilities. Known for quietly sustaining and leading a complex open-source project, he brings both technical craftsmanship and a patient, mentoring approach to teams. Notably, his career blends entrepreneurial grit with real-world service roles, making him effective across technical, operational and customer-focused contexts.
16 years of coding experience
Junior Certificate, Junior Certificate at Gympie State High SchoolOne Mile State School
English
Github Skills (21)
portable10
memory-allocation10
garbage-collector10
bitbake10
memory-management10
garbage10
memory-leak-detection10
freebsd9
cross-platform9
collector9
cpp9
audio8
garbage-collection7
android-framework6
xposed-framework6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SteveYoungs/bdwgc
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector (libgc, bdwgc, boehm-gc)
Contributions:10 pushes, 9 branches in 1 month
cppgarbagefreebsdgarbage-collectorbitbake
njsf/sxemacs
Jul 2012 - Jun 2015
Contributions:48 commits in 2 years 11 months
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