Stephen Minshall

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me@crazyste.com
+61 478 297 981
Sydney, Australia

Career break / travel / moving

Jan 2022 - Present

2022

Mudgee (Feb), Uluru (May), Melbourne (Jun), New Zealand (Nov-Dec)

2023

Port Macquarie (Apr), Thailand (May).

Moving into & renovating my place.


Experience

Expedia

Apr 2018 - Dec 2021, 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Reimagination of holiday rental applications with NodeJS / React and Perl & Mojolicious / JavaScript
  • Extensive test coverage using Jest, Mocha and React Testing Library
  • Google map integration with markers and custom popups
  • GraphQL schema and NodeJS backend that supported dynamic data types via unions and interfaces
  • Integrated with REST / GraphQL / SOAP APIs of vendors such as Expedia, booking.com and Google
  • Built monitoring / alerting dashboards in Splunk

Ericsson

Jan 2017 - April 2018, 1 yr 4 mos

  • Development of media workflow application in Perl
  • Deployment automation using Ansible
  • Build automation using Jenkins
  • Integration of Elastic stack for visualisation, SLA monitoring and log searching

News Corp

May 2014 - Dec 2016, 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Wrote a managed file transfer app in Perl to encrypt and transfer between SFTP, GCS, AWS S3, local
  • Built solution to fetch data from vendor APIs and load into the Data Warehouse or Google BigQuery
  • Wrote the Python REST API to support the “download a copy of your information” application
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Acxiom

March 2011 - April 2014, 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Built marketing platforms for customers (e.g. Ikea) to facilitate marketing campaigns in Perl & Alterian

Computershare

2008 - March 2011, 3 yrs

  • Developed and maintained a platform for remittance processing as a B2B service in Perl & VB6

QM Technologies

2005 - 2008, 3 yrs

  • Executed marketing campaigns according to business rules using Perl & HP Exstream


Skills

Technology

  • NodeJS
  • Perl & Mojolicious
  • JavaScript & ReactJS
  • GraphQL
  • Python
  • Docker
  • git
  • Ansible

Monitoring & reporting

  • Elastic Stack
  • Splunk

AWS

  • EC2
  • S3
  • RDS
  • SQS

Google Cloud Platform

  • App Engine
  • Cloud Functions
  • Compute Engine
  • BigQuery

Databases

  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • SQLite
  • SQL Server
  • HP Vertica
  • BerkeleyDB

Environments

  • Red Hat Linux
  • CentOS
  • Ubuntu
  • Solaris
  • Windows
  • macOS

Education

University of Western Sydney

Bachelor of Computer Science