Stefan Bird
Principal Engineer at Emigrad Pty. Ltd.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Bird is a Principal Engineer based in Melbourne with over 14 years of hands-on experience and a 20+ year track record designing and building large enterprise-grade applications. He specializes in TypeScript and PHP while bringing deep expertise across UX, front- and back-end development, databases, security, microservices and system administration. At PERSUIT® he transformed delivery culture—raising build success from 4% to 94% and shrinking release cycles from two weeks to one hour—while redesigning authorization and automated testing to harden security and observability. As founder and director of Emigrad he has run product, operations and go-to-market end-to-end, blending technical leadership with commercial ownership. He holds advanced research training (PhD) from RMIT and is known for tackling diverse problems from real-time fault-tolerant communications to computer vision, pairing creativity with rigorous engineering processes.
14 years of coding experience
PhD, PhD at RMIT University
Github Skills (27)
dojo9
dstore8
javascript7
database7
orm6
typescript6
sqlite6
postgresql6
mysql6
nodejs5
mariadb5
oracle4
cockroachdb4
sql-server4
typeorm4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
emigrad/announce
Sep 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches, 7 tags in 3 years 6 months
scbird/genetic-programming
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:55 commits, 5 pushes in 19 days
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