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Stefan Fuchs
Software Engineer

About

A Software Engineer with more than 10 years of experience in the Telecommunications, Financial Services and Oil & Gas industries. Passionate about open source and cloud computing to empower and accelerate client success through technology.

Work Experience

Furo
The DevSecOps & Cloud Specialists
https://furo.io
August 2023 – Present
Principal Engineer
We specialise in designing and implementing DevSecOps and Cloud solutions.
Highlights
  • Improve Data Platform DevOps pipelines to enable multiple deployments a day
  • Implement Cost Observability of Data Platform which yielded $2M+ in savings
  • Guide team of DevOps Engineers to increase automation and reduce toil
Contino
Global Transformation Consultancy
https://www.contino.io/
June 2022 – August 2023
Technical Principal
Contino helps large organisations to move to a faster, leaner, more agile and innovative software delivery model.
Highlights
  • Break down monolith into cloud-native reactive microservices for an australian alcohol delivery service
Contino
Global Transformation Consultancy
https://www.contino.io/
April 2019 – June 2022
Lead Consultant (Software)
Contino helps large organisations to move to a faster, leaner, more agile and innovative software delivery model.
Highlights
  • Design and implement one of Australia's big four bank's Compliance Platform
  • Support adoption of Docker best practices
  • Migrate on-prem application stack to GCP
Contino
Global Transformation Consultancy
https://www.contino.io/
February 2018 – April 2019
Senior DevOps Engineer
Contino helps large organisations to move to a faster, leaner, more agile and innovative software delivery model.
Highlights
  • Create Container Security PoC for a large Telco using AWS, Kubernetes and Aqua Security
  • Build Big Data Platform for an Australian Airline on AWS using Glue, Redshift, EMR and CodePipeline/CodeBuild
Deloitte Platform Engineering
Consultancy
http://platform.deloitte.com.au/
August 2016 – January 2018
Specialist Manager
Deloitte Platform Engineering, the place to be if you care about cutting edge open source technology.
Viva Energy (via Deloitte Platform Engineering)
Oil and Gas
https://www.vivaenergy.com.au/
September 2016 – October 2017
Integration Engineer
In August 2014, Shell sold its Australian refinery to Vitol, which operates these assets as Viva Energy. Viva Energy still maintains the Shell branding, but is replacing their current ERP installation.
Highlights
  • Lead and mentor team of integration developers
  • Design and implement integrations using Microservices with Apache Camel and JBoss Fuse
  • Manage iterations in a Scrum environment
Sixtree
Systems Integration Consultancy
http://sixtree.com.au/
October 2015 – July 2016
Consultant
Sixtree is a consulting company specialising in the integration space. It builds solutions tailored to clients needs based on open source technology.
Ventia (via Sixtree)
Construction
http://www.ventia.com.au/
October 2015 – May 2016
Integration Engineer
Ventia formed in 2015 from the integration of Leighton Contractors Services, Thiess Services and Visionstream into a new and independent services company.
Highlights
  • Lead implementation of JBoss Fuse integration platform
DGIT Systems
Telecommunications Consultancy
http://www.dgitsystems.com/
February 2012 – October 2015
Senior Software Engineer
DGIT is a specialist Telecommunications and Cloud-focused software and services company focusing on agile development and standards-based methodologies.
Highlights
  • Drive Telflow Fabric architecture and technical design.
  • Integrate customer systems with Telflow.
  • Manage and mentor offshore development staff.
Uecomm (via DGIT Systems)
Telecommunications
http://www.optus.com.au/business/enterprise/uecomm
September 2013 – September 2014
Software Engineer
Uecomm is an Australian telecommunications service provider providing high bandwidth data and voice networks to medium and large enterprises.
Highlights
  • Implement event-driven back-end using Node.js, RabbitMQ and MongoDB
  • Build modern front-end using AngularJS and Twitter Bootstrap
  • Migrate whole stack from Windows to Linux
NBN Co Limited (via DGIT Systems)
Telecommunications
http://www.nbnco.com.au/
April 2012 – April 2013
Fulfilment Support Analyst
NBN Co is an Australian government-owned corporation tasked to design, build and operate Australia's National Broadband Network.
Highlights
  • Improve reporting out of Comptel Service and resource Inventory (SRI) using Perl
  • Successfully automated migration of major network services in SRI

Contact

Melbourne, Australia 3000 AU
me@fixl.info
https://fixl.info
GitHub
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GitLab
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LinkedIn
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Education

  • 2024 Present

    Microsoft Azure

    Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineering Expert

  • 2024 Present

    Microsoft Azure

    Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate

  • 2023 Present

    Google Cloud Platform

    Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer

  • 2010 2012

    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia

    Master

    Computer Science

  • 2006 2009

    University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT), Austria

    Bachelor

    Biomedical Informatics

Skills

Software
Cloud-native Serverless Hexagonal Architecture Event-Driven Architecture RESTful APIs Domain-Driven Design Test Driven Development
Programming Languages
Python Go Java Groovy JavaScript/TypeScript
DevOps
GithHub Actions Azure DevOps Jenkins GitLab CI Docker Terraform Pulumi Ansible Linux Bash Make
AWS
CloudFormation Lambda Dynamodb SNS SQS S3 RDS Batch API Gateway Code Pipeline Code Build
GCP
Cloud Run Cloud Functions Cloud SQL Cloud Storage Cloud Pub/Sub Cloud Firestore API Gateway
Azure
Function Apps Storage Databricks Data Factory
Databases
MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB sqlite

Interests

Sports
Football