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

