Steven Lee
Software Engineer at Tyro Payments
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolSteven Lee is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years’ experience and over eight years at Booking.com, where he built and scaled end-to-end email marketing systems serving hundreds of millions of subscribers. He blends systems architecture, data engineering and machine learning to drive measurable business outcomes—reducing email deliveries by 55% while boosting engagement up to 64% and cutting generation costs by 30%. Equally comfortable in Java, Perl, Kafka, Hadoop, React and Kubernetes, he has led cross-functional teams, mentored data scientists, and shipped services handling up to a million requests per minute. Known for turning legacy stacks into modern platforms (GraphQL proofs-of-concept, CI/CD, monitoring and operational runbooks), he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a strong record of successful A/B experiments and production impact. Now based in Sydney and currently at Tyro Payments, he continues to focus on high-throughput, resilient systems that directly improve customer funnels.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (45)
perl10
safari9
epub9
calibre8
pdf8
double8
dynamic-languages8
binary-serialization7
python7
hash6
timeout6
moose6
grep6
dbix-class6
regex6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pmara/MIT600x
Nov 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:3 commits in 4 months
stevenl/Test-Mocha
Mar 2015 - May 2019
Perl Test Double Framework
Contributions:4 PRs, 22 pushes, 9 tags in 4 years 2 months
perl5testingdoublenetteperl
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