Steve Harrison
Senior Software Engineer at The Finances App
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Harrison is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with 12 years of experience building high-performance, accessible, and secure front-end experiences for large-scale websites, including multiple cross-functional projects on qantas.com. He currently leads front-end work at Qantas while founding The Finances App, bringing product-minded engineering to both enterprise and consumer-facing builds. Steve has improved load times and introduced automated visual regression testing at scale, contributed to Preact and other open-source projects, and is a top 0.13% StackOverflow contributor with ~113K reputation. His background spans streaming apps, crypto DeFi front ends on Solana, government services, and design systems, reflecting a rare mix of performance tuning, accessibility, and developer tooling expertise. Notably, he operationalised Playwright tests inside Docker for consistent visual diffing—an example of his focus on reliable delivery beyond code.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityHigh School, HSC, High School, HSC at Canberra Grammar School
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (136)
trading10
cryptocurrency10
declarative10
javascript10
exchange10
api10
bitcoin10
dom10
frontend10
react10
cryptocurrencies9
crypto9
browser9
react-testing-library9
imports9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
steveharrison/steveharrison.github.io
Jun 2014 - Dec 2022
Personal website
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 8 years 7 months
reactnextjs
steveharrison/runway
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
Qantas Style Guide
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
style-guideqantas
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