Stephen Mc Gowan is a solutions architecture consultant and seasoned technology leader with 14 years’ experience building product-led engineering organisations across startups, scale-ups and corporate ventures. He co-founded and led engineering at Realta Logic and Cernam, translating research into commercial platforms that leverage LLMs, knowledge graphs and bespoke domain-specific logic, and has hands-on experience across cloud, graph and full‑stack tech. Stephen has a track record of delivering impact in regulated and high-stakes sectors—healthcare, legal and digital evidence—where his systems reduced hospital load and won industry innovation awards. Comfortable both in the C-suite and at the code level, he blends operational rigour (DevSecOps, CI/CD) with product design to ship customer-facing solutions globally. Based in Sydney, he’s notable for turning academic research into pragmatic products and for introducing early innovations such as microservices and blockchain to legal-tech workflows.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Applications (Software Engineering), B.Sc. Computer Applications (Software Engineering) at Dublin City University
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