Platform and infrastructure engineer with 20+ years across streaming, payments, wagering and finance. I design the platform, then ship the apps that run on it — started out building machines (Packer, Ansible, Vagrant); now I build the cloud they live in.
- 🏗️ Infrastructure as code — OpenTofu/Terraform on Azure and AWS: multi-account landing zones, private networking, Key Vault, Postgres, Front Door, observability, and CI that deploys with OIDC instead of long-lived credentials
- 🧩 Full-stack TypeScript — NestJS + Drizzle + PostgreSQL behind, Next.js + React in front, with audit logs on every write
- 🐍 Python when the job wants it — data pipelines with Pandas, GeoPandas and SQLAlchemy; pytest suites that actually get written
- 📐 Architecture as code — ports-and-adapters layouts with policy tests that fail the build, not the code review
- 🐧 The classics — golden images, CIS-hardened Ansible, and far too much shell
- 💼 Consulting — through DIJGTAL, a Sydney digital agency, I build customer portals, SSO/identity (LoginRadius) and commerce platforms on Azure for enterprise brands
- 🌏 Canberra, Australia (UTC+11) · 🐦 @bigal
Pull Shark ×3 — 512+ merged pull requests. Still swimming.
- Internal app platforms — landing zones and app stacks with identity-aware routing, private databases and secrets, deployed by CI that can only touch its own corner.
- Tools that replace spreadsheets — typed APIs with the audit trail done properly, and front ends that prefetch before you notice.
- Images and config management — base boxes and benchmarks, the way the vault in the Arctic remembers them.
| Repo | What it is |
|---|---|
| solaris-packer ⭐ 24 | Packer files for Solaris base boxes |
| CIS ⭐ 10 | Ansible implementation of CIS benchmarks |
| gitlab-terraform ⭐ 5 | Terraform code for a GitLab service |
| packer-inspec ⭐ 1 | Testing Packer-built AMIs with InSpec |