Stephen Heise
Senior Engineer at Xero
Feilding, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Heise is a senior software engineer with over twenty years of commercial development experience and a Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Science, currently building engineering solutions at Xero. He has deep expertise in Microsoft .NET and ASP.NET MVC, and a strong track record delivering full lifecycle projects across enterprise and government systems. Stephen combines a logical, methodical problem-solving style with a clear distinction between robust software engineering and quick code hacks, which has guided his work as a tech lead and senior engineer. He contributed to deployment automation at Octopus Deploy, helping enable Config as Code workflows that tie deployment processes to Git. Based in Feilding, New Zealand, he pairs hands-on technical depth with a genuine passion for crafting maintainable, well-engineered software. An unexpected highlight: he even appears briefly as an extra in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, reflecting a curious career that spans both code and cinema.
4 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Science (BCMS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Science (BCMS), Computer Software Engineering at University of WaikatoTaikura Rudolf Steiner School, Hastings
Github Skills (23)
octopus10
release-management10
markdown9
octopus-deploy9
postinstall8
documentation8
cicd8
patch8
devops8
nodejs7
javascript-tools5
javascript5
node-module5
package-management3
dotnet2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
StephenHeise/octopus-cac
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:12 branches in 1 day
OctopusDeploy/blog
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
| Public | The Octopus Deploy blog
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
octopus-deployautomated-deploymentscicddevopsengineering
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