Lead Platform Engineer based in Sydney, Australia — building developer platforms, automating everything, and migrating enterprises to the cloud.
20 years across Investment Banking, Insurance, and Government — from building trading systems at RBS London to leading platform engineering at QBE Insurance.
🏗️ Platform Engineering — Internal Developer Portals (Backstage), self-service tooling, golden paths to production
☸️ Kubernetes & Cloud — AKS platform build & migration (70+ microservices), Terraform, Helm, GitOps
🔌 Integration & APIs — MuleSoft, API-led architecture, event-driven systems (Confluent Kafka)
⚡ DevOps & Automation — CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps), custom CLIs, chatbots, IaC
- CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CNCF)
- AWS Certified Developer — Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
- SAFe 4 Practitioner — Scaled Agile
- 🎤 APIDays Australia 2024 — Fostering Developer Contributions in Platform-Engineered Workflows
- 🎤 MuleSoft Sydney Meetup — Unleash the Power of Automation on Anypoint Platform
- Shifting Way Left: Integrating Trivy Security Scanning Into Your IDE AI Agent
- Migrating 70+ Microservices to Azure Kubernetes Service
- Building an Internal Developer Portal with Backstage
- The Golden Path to Production
- trivy-security-agent-skill — AI agent skill for Trivy security scanning in the IDE — shift way left
- sample-anypoint-platform-api-wrapper — Automated resource provisioning using Anypoint Platform APIs
- k8s-kubeadm-ansible — Ansible playbooks to provision K8s clusters with kubeadm
- log4j2-sqs-appender — Custom Log4j2 appender shipping logs to Amazon SQS
- TweetStreamingAndProcessing — Twitter stream processing with Akka Streams ⭐5