Stuart Rowlands

Based in New Zealand, Stuart’s focus is on the overall technical direction of Salsa and our tech team.

Stuart helps to direct the forward-thinking and technically interesting opportunities that arise for Salsa. He also helps to drive standardisation in-house, increase efficiencies, act as a mentor for staff, expand the technologies we’re using, and makes sure all Salsa team members are up to date with cutting-edge technology so they can choose the best possible solution to the problem. Stuart’s also the technical architect and lead developer behind Merlin, an automated migration tool.

Skillset

Technical direction
Technical leadership
Web frameworks and platforms (Drupal, Wordpress, Laravel, Symfony, Magento)
C#, Objective C, Swift, PHP, Javascript, Lua
Mobile app development and publishing
Game development (Unity, Unreal Engine)

Previous experience

Stuart has 20 years’ experience across a multitude of web technologies, frameworks, tools and libraries. As well as being the founder and director of multiple tech companies during his career, he also worked full time as a senior technical architect at Acquia, and was also full time for nine years at the University of Queensland as a senior systems programmer. He’s a highly experienced full-stack developer and tech team leader.