Steve Mactaggart
Principal Consultant Cloud Migration Practice Lead
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolSteve Mactaggart is a Cloud Practice Lead with 13 years of experience helping enterprises modernise platforms, align people-process-technology, and turn cloud outcomes into lasting business value. He combines hands-on engineering roots—from Java development and DevOps to founding cloud cost SaaS—with executive experience running regional operations and large migration programs across AWS. Steve specialises in pragmatic modernisation (moving beyond lift-and-shift), building operable platforms, and applying AI to accelerate portfolio assessment and workload wave planning. He pairs technical delivery and commercial clarity, advising on cost, licensing, and ROI to make transformation decisions defensible. An active maintainer on practical open-source tooling (notably work improving AWS–Google SAML auth flows), he favours solutions that survive past handover into steady operations. Based in Melbourne, he’s passionate about growing people and scalable consulting capabilities that bridge ambition and execution.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Alexandra Secondary CollageBa App Sci Computer Science and Software Engineering, Ba App Sci Computer Science and Software Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
python10
saml10
configuration-management10
aws10
google10
git9
cli9
version-control9
tomcat6
jenkins6
error-handling6
hibernate6
wicket6
jasperreports6
gradle6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cevoaustralia/aws-google-auth
Jun 2017 - May 2022
Provides AWS STS credentials based on Google Apps SAML SSO auth (what a jumble!)
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 194 commits, 85 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality and maintainability of the AWS-Google authentication tool. Their work included resolving issues related to MFA detection, which improved the robustness of the authentication process. They also updated the tool to interact with AWS profile configurations, drawing inspiration from another project, and removed redundant code, which streamlined the codebase. Furthermore, they updated the documentation to align with the new profile flow.
pythongooglesingle-sign-onamazonauthentication
cevoaustralia/blog-docker-pipeline-as-code
Mar 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:58 PRs, 112 pushes, 110 branches in 4 years
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