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Technology Leader | Infrastructure & Platform Strategist
profile --summary
Career technologist with 25+ years of technical depth, transitioned into high-impact leadership.
Expert in bridging the communication gap between C-suite strategy and deep-stack engineering execution.
Broadly knowledegable, quickly adaptable, proponent of SRE culture, Configuration as Code, and
ruthless automation to de-risk delivery and to optimise delivery and operations. Known for driving
value in operations through vendor engagement, architectural changes and strategic governance.
skills --core --developing
Unix and Linux
- Solaris and Linux: Long time Solaris and Linux user, skilled at configuration, maintenance and performance management
- Automation: Puppet Enterprise and multiple other toolsets including ArgoCD, Ansible and Openview
- Virtualisation: Excellent Experience with VCF, KVM based, Hyper-V and Proxmox hypervisor platforms
- Linux Solaris PerformanceTroubleshooting
AI development, AI Ops & Automation in the lab
- AI Development: Excellent experience with developing both operations management tooling and utilities using frontier models.
- Agentic AI: OpenClaw instance, using both self-hosted models and cloud / frontier models.
- Puppet Ansible GitHub
Virtualisation, Cloud & Kubernetes
- VCF service introduction: Key member in ANZ's VCF (VMWare Cloud Foundation) RFP, designed and architected the Kube elements on VCF and worked closely with VMWare and technical teams to deliver VCF platform capabilities required by Unix and Kube
- Cluster remediation: Took on a team in distress with challenging availability issues and transformed the service into a reliable and dependable service.
- Kubernetes Deployment improvements: Drove significant change in user footprint to improve deployment approach and single point failures
- Delivery under pressure: Delivered ANZ App and ANZ Internet Banking infrastructure under tight deadlines.
- OpenShift 4 ArgoCD SRE Reliability
Technical Deep-Dive Background
- L3/L4 Expert: Former Sun Microsystems Senior Engineer specializing in Solaris kernel and SPARC architecture.
- Full-Stack Lab: Actively maintains Proxmox cluster, 10GbE fabric, and agentic AI (OpenClaw) integrations.
- Programmer/Scripter: Comfortable reading C, Shell, Python and other languages, with a past life in both C, shell and perl programming.
- ZFS Python AI/ML
leadership --achievements --recent
Enterprise Platform Hardening
- 0 P1 Incidents: Maintained zero customer-impacting team-caused outages across a 2-year tenure managing core Unix & iSeries platforms.
- Risk Reduction: Led non-financial risk reduction for database/storage footprints focused on CPS230 compliance.
- CyberArk Centrify Illumio
Operational Excellence & Automation
- 35% Footprint Reduction: Optimized in-build and pre-operational environments through strategic governance and ongoing review.
- Config-as-Code: Championed ArgoCD and Puppet rollouts, drove Ansible adoption, transforming legacy manual ops into reproducible infrastructure as code.
- Vendor Relationships: Dramatically improved relationships with key vendors, improving time to engage, time to fix, ongoing governance with vendor teams with significant engagement improvements.
- Puppet Ansible GitHub
Cloud & Kubernetes Strategy
- 30% Cost Saving: Negotiated core software licensing reductions through vendor engagement.
- Shared Nothing cluster strategy: Significant change and improvement in availability and servicability
- Mission Critical: Product Owner for OpenShift clusters supporting ANZ Internet Banking and NPP.
- OpenShift 4 ArgoCD SRE
Team Development
- Thought Leader: Actively drive skills development in teams, provided focus points and support.
- TOIL destroyer: Dramatically reduced incident count and repeat operational workarounds through focus on Ops data, targeting high volume issues and automating resolutions.
- Skills Development Focus AI Adoption
cat ~/strategy/philosophy.txt
1. Technical organisations exist to provide the services and solutions to the problems of the business they support. Our actions should always reflect the needs of the business and the customer we serve
2. Culture > Tools. SRE is a mindset of ownership, responsibility and reliability, not just a job title.
3. Empower experts by removing roadblocks, not by micro-managing implementation.
4. AI can be a considerable force multiplier if used in the right ways and with the right risk frameworks.
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