Steven Brown
Chief Technology Officer at funding.com.au
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolSteven Brown is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in Queensland, Australia, with 14 years of experience steering engineering teams from tech lead to executive roles across fintech and SaaS. He blends hands-on machine learning and DevOps expertise with a strong web development background (PHP, JavaScript, Zend Framework, Symfony), having authored parts of Zend Framework in Action and hosted a developer podcast. As an active open-source contributor he enhanced DeepMind's PySC2 environment—expanding game feature data and map/unit support—to make reinforcement learning experiments more expressive. Steven is known for moving rapidly between strategy and implementation, consistently shipping production-ready AI and cloud-native systems while mentoring distributed teams.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Byron Bay High School
Spanish
Stackoverflow
11reputation
8kreached
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Github Skills (6)
machine-learning10
python10
reinforcement-learning10
numpy9
rounding6
mysql6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google-deepmind/pysc2
Mar 2018 - Jun 2019
StarCraft II Learning Environment
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:7 commits, 21 PRs, 19 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the development of the PySC2 environment, a StarCraft II learning environment, by enhancing the features and data available for reinforcement learning agents. They added functionality to incorporate mineral and vespene contents to unit features, fixed issues related to single-select scenarios, and added new ladder maps and unit types. Furthermore, the user implemented features to allow version specification for game creation and introduced an addon unit type, expanding the capabilities and data available for interacting with the game.
starcraftstarcraft-iiblizzard-apideep-learningreinforcement-learning
skjb/pysc2
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
StarCraft II Learning Environment
Contributions:31 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years 2 months
starcraftstarcraft-iideep-learningreinforcement-learningmachine-learning
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