Steven Farlie
Principal Software Engineer at CoinJar
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSteven Farlie is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems and currently shaping architecture and delivery at CoinJar. Formerly an SRE manager at Heroku, he blends deep operational expertise with hands-on engineering to improve platform reliability and developer experience. His background spans backend engineering and site reliability across startups and cloud platforms, and he mentors teams to adopt pragmatic, observable practices. An Australian ANU-educated software engineer based in Castlemaine, he also contributes to open-source education materials, improving clarity in Python beginner workshops. Outside work he has a history of extended travel that informs a pragmatic, user-centered approach to problem solving. He combines platform-level thinking with clear technical communication to turn complex requirements into maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (4)
markdown10
documentation10
markdown-it10
python8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OpenTechSchool/python-beginners
Feb 2013 - Feb 2013
Workshop material for "Introduction to Programming with Python"
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:14 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the repository by correcting typos and improving the clarity and consistency of documentation. Their commits focused on refining the text within the workshop materials, specifically in the documentation files. They addressed minor errors in the code examples, and made the documentation more accurate and readable.
pythonworkshop-materialworkshop
OpenTechSchool/social-coding
Oct 2012 - Feb 2014
Contributions:46 commits in 1 year 4 months
social-networksocial-coding
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.