Stefan Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Strategic consulting and mentoring services around ▪ bootstrapping and scaling businesses; ▪ practical AI adoption and integration into business processes▪ solution and systems architecture; ▪ digital product development;▪ software development;▪ business process optimisation

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Genbook is a leading online and mobile appointment scheduling solution used by 22,000+ local service professionals and over 9 million consumers across the US and Canada. Genbook processes ~U$1 billion worth of bookings per annum.▪ Provide leadership and strategic vision aligned with company goals as member of the executive team. Responsible for all aspects of strategic IT planning.▪ Responsible for development and implementation of Cloud strategy and architecture.▪ Planning & execution of large scale platform migration from Rackspace to Google Cloud ◽migration of Oracle RAC cluster to GCP PostgreSQL; ◽migration of monolithic Java backend to Kubernetes (GKE); ◽company-wide migration from MS Exchange to GSuite; ◽introduction of serverless components (cloud functions, BigQuery, Firebase, etc) to support new cloud architecture▪ Transformation of technical team ◽recruitment of DevOps & SRE engineers to facilitate platform transformation; ◽recruitment of React / NodeJS / Java engineers to facilitate technical debt recovery; ◽recruitment of test automation engineers; ◽recruitment of Android software engineers; ◽mentoring, performance management and career development for engineering team; ◽introduction of CI/CD pipelines; centralised log management; platform monitoring & Slack integrated alerting; ◽definition of agile engineering processes around git-based workflows, code reviews & testing requirements; ◽introduction of Kotlin to facilitate introduction of functional programming principles▪ Introduction security best practices across the company▪ Financial responsibility cloud migration & hosting costs, external services, technical support, and internal servers/network and R&D reporting

Sydney, Australia

Startup creating Australia's largest daily fantasy sports platform, where users pay to enter contests on their sport of choice. Involved in all aspects of business strategy and operations. Driving advancement of two separate technical platforms in Australia and India with a total of 170K+ members.▪ Responsible for architecture and implementation of Moneyball platform since inception▪ Recruitment, management and mentoring of high functioning team of software engineers▪ Conception of development, quality assurance, and implementation methodologies, security standards, processes and teams to support demanding customer base and highly aggressive business goals▪ Setup of scalable platform cloud strategy across AWS and Google Cloud accommodatingchallenging traffic patterns▪ Established compliance with the ISO 27001 information security management standard,Implemented policies and procedures for business continuity and regulatory compliance

Sydney, Australia

Simple Machines is a product company & software consultancyWe work with corporations, disruptors and dreamers to create the future.Responsible for * Architecture and development of mobile payments and rewards platform using Java / Scala / Spring / Akka* Architecture and development of a major fantasy sports platform using Scala / Play! / Akka / Angular / AWS. Lead a team of software engineers. Delivered on time and on budget. * Build a team of software engineers and technical trainers around the Typesafe Reactive Platform

Sydney, Australia

• Member of the executive leadership team, reporting directly to the CTO and CEO and working closely with business development and marketing managers, user interaction and graphics designers, as well as a team of software engineers to develop new product offerings and improve existing platform• Design and architecture of a highly scalable backend capable of ingesting, normalising and aggregating thousands of sensor readings per second hosted in Microsoft Azure• Leading and managing a highly successful project to develop a HTML5 / Javascript single page application portal for building portfolio management and sustainability reporting based on real-time data• Implemented real-time analytics and exception reporting solution leveraging complex event processing techniques• As member of executive team participated in and contributed to strategic decisions • Directed the evolution of the platform to support new features and requirements while focussing on improvement of user experience, performance and reliability of the platform and its user interface• Recruited, managed and mentored teams of offshore software engineers• Managed testing team and architected continuous delivery solution to shorten release cycles while improving product quality• Evangelised the use of modern source control systems, encouraged increased focus on automated testing, performed code reviews and managed task allocations to support an agile and timely release process

* Founding member of Spring Roo project. Spring Roo is a popular rapid application development tool that offers significant interoperability with the key Java technologies and cloud infrastructure* International speaking engagements as software evangelist for Spring Roo (JavaOne, Devoxx, SpringOne, StrangeLoop, Vmware vForum, Japan Developers Summit and others)* Design and development of OSGi-based add-on system for Spring Roo, core enhancements, JSON integration, Solr (search) engine integration, Op4j integration, etc * Spring RooBot, development of add-on management server for Spring Roo. RooBot is a cloud-hosted, highly concurrent add-on publication and verification service which leverages key technologies such as Apache Tomcat, Amazon S3, and XMPP* Spring Roo Community evangelism, development and promotion through Twitter, Forums and user groups

• Spring Roo, involved in core architecture, author of finder, email, JMS, JPA, logging, property editor, Web Flow, menu, MVC controller, JSP and Selenium add-ons • Handling Spring framework related support and liaising with globally distributed engineering teams. Extensive exposure to various Spring portfolio projects including Spring core, MVC, REST, security, Web services, Web flow, Batch, AOP & AspectJ and dynamic modules (OSGi) • Involved in training and public speaking as member of the global services team Contributed during process design for establishment of a global support organization

• Worked as freelance technical writer for IBM developerWorks• Special interest is open-source development and technical writing• Published two tutorials about J2EE compliant Web services development for the Apache Geronimo J2EE application server

• Liased with and advised multinational team of programmers, database developers, graphic designers, and marketing managers to enhance business processes and improve product quality• Designed, developed, and coded e-Business solutions using HTML, JavaScript, ASP, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, ADO.NET, MySQL, MS-Access and MS-SQL Server•Consulted with customers to provide advice on enterprise systems integration

• Developed dynamic Web platform driven by J2EE backend to streamline client relationships• Designed and implemented template modules using HTML/PHP, JavaScript and MySQL• Supported project management

• Acquired knowledge and skills required by banking analysts with focus on corporate finance• Specialised in IT development and organisation, securities trading, loans, investment development, international business relations

Phd, Computing Science

Thesis: ‘A Trust-Aware Framework for Service Selection and Service Quality Review in e-Business Ecosystems’

Master, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Science, Software Systems Engineering