Summary
Stewart Matheson is a Senior Technical Consultant based in Melbourne with 17 years of experience building full‑stack web systems, APIs and developer tooling, with a specialty in Ruby and open source. He’s led small engineering teams and served as CTO, delivering production-grade eCommerce and real‑time 3D WebGL experiences while maintaining zero staff turnover over four years. Stewart combines hands‑on backend expertise (Rails, Spring Boot, Node) with modern front‑end work in React/Redux and deep operational skills in Docker, CI and cross‑platform deployments. Notable achievements include designing a realtime networked visual marker database in C++ with OpenCV, rolling out an in‑store customization platform across 100 stores, and creating robust automated test suites and custom Ruby gems. He’s equally comfortable debugging platform quirks—such as running Ruby stacks on Windows—and mentoring grads into mid‑level engineers, blending practical delivery with long‑term team growth.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Game Technology, MSc, Computer Game Technology at City St George’s, University of London
Multimedia, Multimedia at Swinburne University of Technology
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