Steve Worley
Engineering Manager at Xero
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
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Top SchoolSteve Worley is an engineering manager with 12 years of hands-on experience building observability and backend systems, currently leading engineering at Xero and co-founding QuantCDN. He has a strong track record in developer-focused platforms and integrations—his open-source contributions to the Lagoon project include Keycloak and OpendistroSecurity enhancements that improve group, role and tenant synchronization for enterprise deployments. Steve progressed from senior Drupal developer roles into technical architecture and DevOps leadership, blending full-stack engineering, platform reliability and operational scaling. Based in Brisbane, he pairs startup grit with enterprise discipline, often translating complex identity and security needs into pragmatic platform features. Notably, he bridges product and infra by shipping both developer tooling and production-ready delivery automation for cloud-native environments.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Pacific Pines State High
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Github Skills (11)
keycloak10
api10
apidoc10
openshift9
bash8
javascript7
jquery6
graphql4
cicd4
wpgraphql4
wordpress-graphql4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
uselagoon/lagoon
Oct 2019 - Jan 2022
Lagoon, the developer-focused application delivery platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 7 PRs, 11 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the Lagoon platform. They modified the Keycloak integration, including group transformations and configuration changes. Additionally, they worked on the OpendistroSecurity integration within the API, focusing on group synchronization, role and tenant creation/deletion, and Kibana index pattern configurations. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the auto-idler functionality, specifically for Openshift services.
delivery-platformfocusedlagoonapplication-delivery
steveworley/lagoon-php-sdk
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:4 releases, 52 commits, 29 PRs in 6 months
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