Hello I'm
Stefan Caliaro
Web Designer, Cloud Engineer & Candid Blogger
Honestly, one of the best IT guys you'll ever find
INFJ-T: Advocate + Curious Rover
- [email protected]
- +61 4 0261 4261
- Sydney, Australia
Hey there, thank you for visiting my page. ☺
The Creative In Me
I'm basically a creative tech geek! 👨💻 I'm very visually minded, but also encompass a great deal of technical workings; from HTML/CSS, SEO/Social Media marketing to Linux and Web Hosting/Cloud Environments + blogging and image/video editing.
The Social In Me
I write reviews on poor Product/Service experiences to better them (I'm an uber QA Tester), I blog with LinkedIn Articles and have been microblogging on Facebook since 2010 (MSN & Runescape before that, I skipped MySpace and Bebo, I thought they were uncool and it was at a time when we were told to safeguard our names online - ha, how times have changed 😂), Twitter & Instagram since 2012.
I was a Google Student Ambassador in 2013, which was basically social media marketing for Google on the Google@UTS pages. I vlog on bugs & tech events. 🎬 (I'm convinced bugs are literally everywhere and I run into them almost daily as a result of extensively using tech in every way). I've been hired as a QA UI Tester in the past for Channel 9's Stan - a streaming OTT video on demand service. 
The Future In Me
I enjoy producing and improving user experiences (UX).
I'm currently interviewing for Web, UX & UI Design, QA, SEO, Social Media & Content Marketing roles. If you have remote job opportunities, even better! 😃 You should read the article I wrote on remote vs in-office work here.
Skills & Projects on my to-learn list:
Great at envisioning web flows and selecting the right templates for the job.
I do a lot of HTML & CSS edits when templates need tweaking.
I'm always looking for templates optimised for speed and elegance.
I have been using Social Media since the MSN days. I have worked for Google doing Social Media Marketing and an SEO agency.
I now currently do Social Media Marketing and SEO for Siteroo.
Siteroo is primarily a web design consultancy I setup in early 2018 catering to on-page SEO.
It has involved 2 website redesigns itself based on WordPress Elementor, GCP & Cloudflare and undertaken about 5 client websites designs ranging from E-commerce to business homepages.
Siteroo drastically helped me improve my diminishing SEO efforts, ranking my site on page 1 of Google!- Nick Shulhin
Stefan is a great humble character I've known over the years. He built and maintained our business website with ease.- William Chow
Since I love content collation, blogging comes very natural to me. I've started blogging on topics ranging from remote work, mental wellbeing, SEO to getting hired and more to come.
My goal is to eventually setup my own hosted blog (most likely running ghost.org) in the next comming weeks. I follow a few entreprenuerial freelance YouTubers like Joshua Fluke, The Tech Lead & Flux (Ran Segall) to name a few. Other great channels are Veritasium, MinuteEarth & Kurzgesgt.
Owneroom was slated to be a property co-ownership platform, similar to flatmates.com.au, but for equity co-owning. You would ultimately own your room with options to lease or sell it. Similar to stocks or VPSs.
Tools: WordPress WP Bakery/Visual Composer, HTML/CSS Edits, MailChimp, Google Analytics, Buffer, Slack, VistaPrint (cards & jackets) & AWS EC2 hosting with Cloudflare.
Stefan handled all of the UI updates, wrote blog posts, social media marketing and web hosting needs on AWS all with ease, he is very well experienced in this domainWilliam Chow - Co-Founder
We had a lot of general interest from the public meetups we went to, but ultimately is a tough nut to crack being the biggest transaction everyday people make in their lives. Even more resourced competitors shut down.
I constantly review and document my experience of products/services (productreview.com.au), technology (macforums bugs, reddit, Adobe, WP Plugin forums, Facebook Groups, YouTube Comments), food outlets (Google Reviews/Places, Uber Eats) & hotels (hotels.com).
View Reviews 📝
As part of AWShine hackathon held at BlueChilli Sydney, I worked in a team of 4 people to prototype a anonymous chat location app idea whereby users could only chat to each other if they entered a chat room within a 7 meter radius. We pitched the idea to BlueChilli Owner, Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin and won best potential. I wrote up a design document of the UI flows and implemented Facebook's login API.
Wrote 2 articles on web hosting a ghost blog + YOURLS custom open source PHP link analytics software package, as well as a Sydney Startup Weekend Hackathon I attended and joined a team of 8, for SoundNina, a Chrome add-on aimming to scan webpages for mentions of artists names in order to give them a cut when viewers would buy or stream their music on iTunes or Spotify as examples.
During this HCI (human-computer interaction) project, I was working in a team of 4 people at UTS and tasked to interview potential users and drafted up wireframe prototypes. Part of the role was to critique for usability concerns using Nielsen's Usability Heuristics or here for a more visual article.
Tools: UXPin.com, Google Docs/Word (feedback). View Wireframes
During a software design & development project at UTS, I was tasked with researching the MVC model as well as mocking up fully interaction (press F5 for full-screen mode and click on buttons) end to end 85 UI screen designs, covering the full user experience (UX) flow. I followed UI design best practices.
Tools: MS PowerPoint. View 85 Wireframes Deck
I enjoy capturing the essence of life, from unique angle and well timed shots to just the good old stuff like pets, travel and birthdays. 🙂 I usually post about tech bugs and comics on there too. It's a great medium to post to Twitter & Facebook at once + I love photos! Who doesn't? Managing my phone storage levels is a constant challange of mine; I'm looking to further solve more efficiently (so many ways I've tried seem to all fail).
During high school for my university entrance exams, I remade three classic games; including Snake, Space Invaders & Tron - all with '2 player mode' included using different sets of keys on the same keyboard.I wrote a user manual for it as well.
I was first introduced to programming in VB6 in 2009 by my computing teacher, but I didn't really know what programming actually was back then. I became more serious about it in 2010 with the introduction of VB.NET which seemed much more appealing (modern online community support & features) than old VB6 which Excel macros run on.
I enjoy filming tech conferences, music events, tennis wins, travel and tech advice/bug reports.
Tools: Video editing in Windows Movie Maker, Mobile Editing, P10 Phone Camera. I run multiple personal lightweight channels, including Facebook live streaming. Looking at learning Adobe Premeire soon for web design video resizing, cutting and re-encoding.
FYI: This static page is freely hosted on a GCP Cloud Storage Bucket via Cloudflare with an SLA uptime guarantee higher than any WordPress site (99.90% - us-east1 single region). It also can't be hacked since it's purely just a static HTML/CSS page which is WAY faster too! And yep, it's completely free too! (You can also use AWS S3 instead of GCP).
I learned the fundamentals of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, AJAX, PHP, Java, Linux, TCP/IP, 3G/4G Telephony, Project Management & the need to constantly innovate. (Business Strategy).
The degree awards students with fourtnightly payments amounting up to AUD $49 500 over 3 years, for a total of 1 year of sponsored full-time internships worked. (I interned at Optus & WiseTech Global for 6 months each full-time).
During my time at UTS, I hand-coded my first two HTML/CSS Portfolio sites while learning Linux with Ryan Hiese (2012 - 31268 Web Systems) and an AJAX driven PHP/MySQL E-commerce store (2013 31748 Programming on the Internet [elective]) from scratch.
I also prototyped UI Designs (2013 - 48440 Software Engineering Practice) for Websites and Mobile Apps (2014 - 31260 Fundamentals of Interaction Design [elective]).
A course by Google to explain SEM, SEO and PPC campaigns.
A short course to explain how to optimise website page load performance, covering topics on Critical Rendering Path (how browsers interpret HTML & CSS code) all the way to optimising for PageSpeed Insights and Chrome DevTools waterfall network tab layout. (Similar to GTmetrix).
A course by Google to introduce and expand the knowledge of Google Cloud Platform.
An AWS Course designed to develop technical expertise in cloud computing (EC2, ELBs, S3, Auto-scaling, Route 53, RDS, VPCs) and prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification.
Theory, QwikLabs, practice tests and an AWS Certified Instructor are part of the course. I did this as a beta (trial) subject at UTS.
Stefan is an extremely enthusiastic and determined individual. He continues to strive in designing websites and enjoys exploring a world of new technologies. I have great confidence in him and his abilities.
Stefan drastically helped me improve my diminishing SEO efforts. He ranked many of my blog posts on the 1st page of Google for many keyword searches. I highly recommend his SEO marketing and website design/hosting services, he really knows how to get the ball rolling! :)
Stefan is a very focused, structured and determined person. He follows his goals and fulfils his tasks with facility and determination. He is a great colleague and person to work with. It is always a pleasure to work with him.
Stefan is a great character, we Founded a startup together, and while it proved to be a difficult idea to launch, together we were able to launch a WordPress site and gather customer feedback to further gauage how we were going to win over the housing ownership market
Stefan is very friendly and seems to know everything about computers and the latest technology. He is the go-to guy for any IT-related issue. I wish him all the best with his latest venture.