Aaron Gorka

Lead Consultant

Kasada

• Enabling web-scale for a rapidly expanding SaaS organisation
• Uplifting SDLC from multi-month to <1d release cycle
• Designing and implementing Kasada’s Kubernetes platform: see the case study and article from Amazon
• Typescript and Pulumi

Vodafone Hutchison Australia (TPG)

• AWS architect for https://www.vodafone.com.au website refresh
• Serverless (Next.js) and EC2 Java applications
• Upskilling team in cloud-native and Python best practices

Zip Money

• EKS platform design & build for the new Amazon Australia partnership
• CI/CD processes, implementation and culture
• Developer skill uplift
• Go-live Kubernetes support
• Terraform IaC, GitLab CI/CD

Other notable projects include Finder, BPay, Equifax, Fox Sports, Bravura and ANZ.

Senior DevOps Engineer

• Championed DevOps culture in development teams
• Modernised legacy development practices: introduced containerisation, pipeline-based CI/CD workflows, trunk-based development, immutable artifacts
• Designed and built an application platform based on ECS
• Developed and contributed to Free Open Source projects

DevOps Engineer

• Building infrastructure for services in AWS environment
• Building CI/CD pipelines
• Maintenance and reliability engineering for high-traffic websites including https://domain.com.au
• Designed and built monitoring platform, highly useful for development teams
• Delivered solution architecture for rewrite of https://www.mydesktop.com.au

System Monitoring Specialist

• Administrated Linux servers and applications
• Collaborated with developers, DBAs, application support and infrastructure support to deliver accurate metrics to management

Level 2/3 Support Technician