Summary
Abhaya Chauhan is a hands-on Director of Engineering with 11+ years delivering cloud-native, outcome-driven products across AWS, startups and enterprise teams. He combines deep expertise in architecture patterns (DDD, CQRS, EDA, event sourcing, microservices) with pragmatic leadership—scaling teams, introducing CD and uplifting engineering maturity to increase deployments and reliability. Previously an AWS Solutions Architect and instructor, he blends platform-level cloud skills with teaching experience to raise squad-level capability and security posture. Notable impacts include boosting deployment cadence from 10 to 50+ weekly and increasing developer engagement from mid-50s to over 80%. Based in Melbourne, he favors data-driven experimentation, sustainable delivery practices and building empowered teams that focus on measurable user outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Software Development, Computer Science Software Development at RMIT University
Prince 2 Project Management, Prince 2 Project Management at Prince 2 Training
Advanced Distributed Systems, Advanced Distributed Systems at Udi Dahan
Architecture Master Class Architecture with Juval Lowy, Architecture Master Class Architecture with Juval Lowy at IDesign (Juval Lowy)
70-583: PRO: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications Azure, 70-583: PRO: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications Azure at Microsoft Certification
MCSD Web Applications, MCSD Web Applications at Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
Masters of Information Technology Software Engineering, Masters of Information Technology Software Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne Grammar