Andrew Burton
Head Of Platform Engineering
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Burton is a seasoned platform and reliability leader with 26 years of experience building and scaling DevOps, SRE and performance engineering practices across major Australian and international enterprises. Currently Head of Platform Engineering at THE ICONIC, he progressed internally from QA, performance and automation leadership into a role that combines strategic platform direction with hands-on operational accountability. His background includes senior performance and quality roles at OFX, Rockend, William Hill and Westpac, giving him deep expertise in performance testing, automation and resilience for high-traffic systems. Known for turning legacy testing approaches into continuous, measurable delivery pipelines, he balances people leadership with technical fluency across observability, CI/CD and cloud-native tooling. Based in Sydney, he brings a pragmatic, risk-aware approach to accelerating engineering velocity while maintaining service stability.
26 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tasmania
Github Skills (28)
cocos-creator10
gameboy-advance10
rom10
giphy10
x-plane10
fltk10
sandbox9
simulation9
dm9
kodi9
browser9
isometric9
transport8
ofx7
file-format6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bruny/gmameui
Feb 2008 - Feb 2017
Contributions:263 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
bruny/romcollectionbrowser
Jul 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:3 PRs, 205 pushes, 151 branches in 7 years 2 months
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