Steven Baker
Principal Developer at NSW Department of Customer Service
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Baker is a Principal Developer based in Brisbane with 11 years of experience delivering secure, citizen-facing government and banking platforms. He has led development and architecture for digital identity and payments projects, including NSW’s Digital Birth Certificate and enterprise CX platforms such as mobile and online banking. Comfortable both hands-on and as an IT manager, he has built high-performing teams, introduced TDD/CI practices, and guided security and penetration testing to harden systems. His cross-government work spans identity management, fraud prevention, and whole-of-government payment integrations, reflecting deep domain knowledge in public sector compliance. Known for translating complex requirements into pragmatic, auditable solutions, he blends Java and scripting expertise with strong vendor and stakeholder management. An early tutor and continual trainer, he still invests in mentoring and practical skills transfer across teams.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology Information Technology at James Cook University
English, java, groovy, ruby, c++, c#, grails, perl, bash, python, javascript
Github Skills (129)
custom-domain9
payment9
payment-gateway9
spring9
java9
spring-boot9
apply8
pos8
ancestry8
ember-addon8
gateway8
django7
sql7
authentication7
api7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bakersemail/orders-v1
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
Orders base v1 before layout updates in v2
Contributions:28 PRs, 34 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 4 months
bakersemail/maven-replacer-plugin
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021
Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/maven-replacer-plugin
Contributions:8 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
maven-pluginjavareplacermaven
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