DAVID O’BRIEN
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
EMAIL:-| david-obrien.net | xirus.com.au
MOBILE: +61 -
SUMMARY
Manage complex software and infrastructure projects within
enterprise environments across Europe and Australia
Technical and strategy team lead on contemporary cloud
projects across several industries, including Banking, Capital
Markets, Insurance and Travel
Internal and external stakeholder management on cloud DevOps
projects
Experienced in external partner / SI selection for digital
transformation projects
Effectively lead, mentor and supervise complex, cross-functional
teams including industry specialists whilst providing strategic
advice and driving recruitment to achieve key measurable
results and IT orientated goals
Demonstrated ability to apply innovative solutions to manage
risk and environmental constraints and lead project teams
through example and deliver business outcomes
In-depth technical know-how around API driven cloud
environments
Awarded 5 times Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP,
Cloud)
Globally recognised speaker and track owner at IT conferences
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS:
Design PCI compliant, API driven payment gateway integrating
to third party payment services like Mastercard, on Microsoft
Azure. Highly available across multiple geolocations.
Lead initial phase of an Australian bank’s digital transformation
program identifying opportunities in their vendor selection,
product and platform choice and that way setting the second
phase (implementation) up for success
Lead migration project of PCI compliant payments platform from
customer’s datacentre to the Microsoft Azure cloud ensuring all
internal parties and external vendors are aligned to the
business’s goals, defining the project migration plan in
collaboration with customer’s CIO and Enterprise Architects
Lead a greenfield Microsoft Azure cloud implementation for
Australian FinTech, identifying business requirements, creating
Agile backlogs in collaboration with Development Leads, tracking
progress and realigning efforts to business goals where required
Lead a cost management and spending review of Azure cloud
subscriptions for enterprise customer, introducing showback
strategies and reducing overall cost of cloud platform
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
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DevOps / Agile Practices
Infrastructure automation / Infrastructure as Code
Full-stack automation
Technical / Delivery Lead
Project Management
Atlassian Jira / Confluence
Public Cloud
Microsoft Azure
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Infrastructure as Code
Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM)
Terraform
Pulumi
Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
Visual Studio Team Services / Azure DevOps Services
Jenkins
Databases
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Azure SQL
Container platforms
Kubernetes (Open Source)
Serverless cloud architecture
Azure Functions / Azure Logic Apps
Development Languages
PowerShell (Expert), C# (basic), Python (basic), NodeJS
(basic)
Software Development Lifecycle
Various implementations of git
Test automation guidance
Web / API messaging
REST / JSON API design
EXPERIENCE
DIRECTOR, XIRUS
May 2018 – present
Responsible for Cloud/Technology/DevOps strategy
Vendor selection and management
Translate business requirements into technical requirements
Overall cloud architecture
Hands-on implementation of Azure environments
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT / CONTRACT
May 2018 – March 2019
Translate business requirements into technical requirements
Provide consulting services to clients
Uplift customer development and operations teams
DevOps Assessments and follow-on action on those assessments
SENIOR DEVOPS CONSULTANT
May 2016 – May 2018
Responsible for technology direction and selection for customers
Leading development and operations teams
Provide consulting services to clients
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Oversee Lift & Shift projects from on-premises datacentre into
Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud
Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
processes for .net development teams
Uplift customer development and operations teams
DevOps Assessments and follow-on action on those assessments
SOLUTION ARCHITECT
July 2015 – May 2016
Responsible for technology strategy/roadmap
Automate software development lifecycle processes
Create detailed design, as-built, test plan and operational
documents
Design and implement automated Amazon AWS environments
Provide customer training on Microsoft automation disciplines
SOLUTION ARCHITECT
February 2014 – July 2015
Technical Team Lead at customer site
Customer presentations and technical pre-sales
Design & implement high-level architecture solutions
Create detailed design, as-built, test plan and operational
documents
Assist clients to create detailed operational procedures
Drive automation of customer business processes
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
February 2009 – February 2014
Provide Microsoft / Citrix consulting services to clients
Community engagement
OTHER
MENTORING / TEACHING
Pluralsight author, 2017 – present
“A Cloud Guru” author, 2019 - present
PRESENTING
Techmentor Conference, Seattle/USA, 2018
Highload Conference, Moscow/Russia, 2018
Riga Dev Days, Riga/Latvia, 2018
Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NICConf), Oslo/Norway, 2015,
2016
Microsoft TechEd Australia, Melbourne and Sydney, 2014
IT DevConnections, USA, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Brisbane Infrastructure Saturday, 2014, 2015, 2017
Founder of PowerShell Meetup Melbourne, 2016 – 2018
MICROSOFT MOST VALUED PROFESSIONAL (MVP) AWARD
2013 – 2014 Enterprise Client Management
2015 – 2017 Cloud and Datacenter Management / PowerShell
2017 – 2018 Microsoft Azure
REFERENCES upon request
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