Summary
Adam Conway is a Lead Platform Engineer in Melbourne with 11 years’ experience designing and operating high-availability Azure-based systems and leading cross-team architecture decisions. He specialises in migrating complex workloads to cloud-native platforms, building multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters, and creating infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and observability frameworks that empower large engineering organisations. Comfortable across the full stack, Adam blends deep platform engineering—networking, automation and multi-region deployments—with hands-on application development. He has driven platform initiatives supporting 100+ engineers and routinely conducts Well-Architected and Cloud Adoption reviews to align technical choices with business risk. Passionate about scaling AI-driven development practices, he focuses on improving engineering velocity and code quality through automation and tooling. His background at companies from startups to enterprise gives him a pragmatic, systems-level view that surfaces subtle operational trade-offs early.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours Software Engineering at University of Canterbury