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PurePlay CloudPrincipal Architect
Nov. 2025Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
ThoughtworksPrincipal Infrastructure Consultant
Apr. 2024 - Oct. 2025Brisbane, Queensland, AustraliaDesigned, developed and implemented an AWS Landing Zone product that passed compliances/audits across public and private sector clients. Specialist in leading infrastructure engagements including:
- Lead large scale enterprise modernisation and cloud migration projects.
- Being a technical lead for an Australian challenger bank, helping them grow from a
neo bank to a publicly traded, ADI licensed bank. Initiatives ranged from data
warehousing, to event driven architecture - as well as infrastructure platform
development.
- Design and delivery of AI model post training solutions with a high
performance computing partner.
ItocHead of Data and Financial Services
Jul. 2021 - Apr. 2024Brisbane, Queensland, AustraliaLed two professional services teams, doing the following:
- Regulated industry AWS infrastructure design, build and implementation
- Event driven solutions to create next generation data stores
- Bespoke event driven system integration/conversion for complex source/destination systems
- Product design and development lifecycle
- Strategic leadership in Data and Finance Industry verticals
- Line leadership, mentoring and development
- Day to day technical escalation handling of Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes and AWS
ItocHead Of Financial Services
Mar. 2021 - Aug. 2021Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
ItocSolutions Architect
Aug. 2020 - Mar. 2021Brisbane, Queensland, AustraliaAWS Partner designing and implementing cloud solutions.
- Infra as Code technology in CI/CD pipelines (Terraform/CloudFormation).
- Kubernetes platform design + implementation.
- Python back end APIs.
- Various AWS architecture design + implementation.
- Project + stakeholder management
Paperless PostSenior Infrastructure Engineer
Feb. 2018 - Aug. 2020London (remote)Senior IC role focused on delivering a new Kubernetes based platform for software engineering teams:
- Kubernetes cluster automation and management
- CI/CD pipelines
- Incident management process overhaul
- Database administration (PostgreSQL)
- General automation of cloud infrastructure with Terraform
- Mentor in the company's mentorship program, mentored engineering and non-engineering staff
Wonderbly - Previously Lost My NameHead of Site Reliability Engineering
Sep. 2017 - Sep. 2018London, United KingdomLead two teams to:
- Track, triage and reduce MTTR and incident frequency
- Calculate, set and monitor SLAs
- Automate the pants off of anything that can be
- Ensure any office dogs are receiving the attention they deserve
- Build highly available systems across a wide range of different stacks
- Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines
- Track and reduce IaaS spending Other bits:
- Career planning/guidance/training of reports
- Annual reviews of reports
- Grievance officer (ACAS Discipline and Grievance trained)
- Translation of "business-y things" to engineering requirements
- Planning + retrospective processes
- Dressed up in a cockroach costume and acted as a software "bug" during a promotional Facebook live event
Wonderbly - Previously Lost My NameInfra Lead
Oct. 2016 - Oct. 2017London
EnsightenSr. Infrastructure Engineer
Oct. 2014 - Oct. 2016London, United KingdomInfrastructure architecting, implementation, training, documentation and support of in no particular order:
- AWS, Azure, Rackspace and Softlayer
- Promotion of a DevOps culture
- Global Cassandra database service
- High speed, highly available web platforms
- Log aggregation and processing (ELK), metrics, self-healing and alerting tech
- Infra as code frameworks with Terraform
- Configuration management frameworks with Puppet and Ansible
- Brewing of some drinkable beer
- Site to site and client VPNs
- Day to day scripting using Bash, Python and Ruby
- Git version control and CI with Jenkins
- On call procedures, escalation guide lines and processes
Amazon Web ServicesCloud Support Associate
Nov. 2013 - Oct. 2014Dublin, Ireland
Bank of America Merrill LynchSummer Analyst
Jul. 2013 - Aug. 2013MLFC, 2 King Edward Street, EC1A 1HQ, London - UKTier 1 Support for 2nd Line Infrastructure Support Team
- Incident Management
- HVD Project roll outs
- Scripting and automation for 2nd line support teams
- Windows + RHEL 5
- Tier 1 Support for Investment Banking and Trading Floors
Environmental Protection Agency IrelandI.T. Infrastructure
Jun. 2012 - Aug. 2012Wexford- MS Exchange 2007 - 2010 upgrade
- Cisco WiFi installation
- Smart device mobility project (MobileIron)
- 2nd/3rd line support
- Network monitoring
- Incident Management
TFA HostingCo-Founder - Head of Systems
Sep. 2011 - Oct. 2016Dublin, IrelandCo-founded a hosting company.
Set up and responsible for a virtual environment providing customers with services such as:
- Web Hosting (Nginx, Apache, lighttpd, IIS)
- VPN (OpenVPN-SSL, L2TP, PPTP)
- Virtual Servers (*NIX, Windows)
- Cloud Storage
- Consultancy
- Games Servers
Trinity College DublinNetwork Access Advisor
Sep. 2011 - Oct. 2013DublinRunning clinics to aid students joining their laptops to the campus wifi, and providing general information about IT
Environmental Protection Agency IrelandIntern - IT Infrastructure
Jun. 2011 - Oct. 2011Backup Monitoring Network Infrastructure Inventory New technology research - vmware desktop virtualization - mobile deployment
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