Steven Casey is a Principal Engineer with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering reliable, scalable systems across startups and large enterprises in industries from GIS and retail to finance and government. He combines hands-on backend expertise (Java, Python, Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch, Airflow, AWS) with a track record of leading teams, shaping technical strategy, and mentoring engineers to solve real business problems. Steven has repeatedly moved into senior technical roles at major firms—Groupon, Amazon, eHealth, Macquarie—building data platform infrastructure for engineers, analysts, and data scientists. Known for pragmatic architecture and a focus on fault tolerance and test-driven design, he thrives on making complex data systems operationally robust. Based in Sydney and open to roles there, he would require E3 sponsorship for US positions. An unusual detail: his career spans both deep GIS/mapping work and modern data-platform engineering, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on spatial and large-scale analytics systems.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing Science, Computer Science at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Steven Casey - Principal Engineer at Macquarie Group