Steven Mcphillips
Senior Principal Software Engineer at carsales
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolSteven Mcphillips is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 15 years of experience designing and delivering sustainable, scalable systems across product-driven companies like Zendesk and carsales. He combines hands-on engineering (architecture, tech lead, solver roles) with strong cross-functional collaboration to turn ambiguous problems into reliable, production-ready services that reduce cost and increase uptake. Notable wins include shipping a Python/Celery self-service sandbox that cut provisioning time and costs, evolving that work into a multi-product deployment/configuration platform, and boosting engineering-blog participation through lower-friction processes. He thrives in the tension between engineering excellence, product priorities, and business value, and is known for fostering inclusive knowledge sharing, async-first practices, and on-call readiness. Outside of core product work he has a long history in digital collections, API design and platform migrations, reflecting a breadth that spans from legacy systems to modern cloud-native stacks.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
Stackoverflow
826reputation
36kreached
33answers
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Github Skills (56)
pip6
ruby-on-rails6
php6
solaris6
packaging6
href6
ckeditor6
python6
ruby6
file-rename6
unix6
echo6
virtualenv5
google-chrome-extension5
rails5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
smcphill/petulant-octo-shame
May 2015 - Apr 2023
testing jenkins/git integration
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years
smcphill/LATRS
Mar 2011 - Sep 2011
Contributions:222 commits in 6 months
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