Summary
Andrew Harcourt is a seasoned technology leader with 14+ years of experience guiding engineering teams and shaping delivery practices across consulting, product, and enterprise environments. As Head of IT & Engineering at Etax Accountants and formerly an Engineering Manager at Octopus Deploy and Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks and Readify, he specialises in mentoring teams to improve architecture, code quality and outcomes using EDA, DDD, TDD, BDD and IoC. He blends hands-on engineering chops from a long .NET/Java background with a strong security and distributed-systems foundation dating back to Telstra and government roles. Known for translating technical best practices into pragmatic, shipped software, he helps business leaders take ownership of the software their organisations rely on. Based in Brisbane and holding a BInfTech (Hons I) from The University of Queensland, he brings both academic rigour and a practitioner’s focus on measurable delivery.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Senior Certificate Physics Chemistry Mathematics B Mathematics C English Music, Senior Certificate Physics Chemistry Mathematics B Mathematics C English Music at Brisbane Grammar School
BInfTech (Hons I) Location-based Services Distributed Systems Software Engineering, BInfTech (Hons I) Location-based Services Distributed Systems Software Engineering at The University of Queensland