Andrew Heap
Solutions Architect at RMIT University
Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Heap is a solutions architect with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering cloud and digital platforms across banking, government and enterprise organisations in Australia. He blends deep technical fluency in cloud data platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS), integration patterns and secure customer journeys with practical experience in vendor assessment, risk profiling and architecture governance. His career includes leading a Data-as-a-Service platform at Crown Resorts, driving digital channel and payments transformations at major banks, and advising on SaaS and network architectures for public-sector clients. A pragmatic full-stack thinker, he still contributes code to open-source projects—recently enhancing DirectInput support in a prominent .NET graphics/input bindings repo—reflecting a developer mindset that informs his architectural decisions. Based in Victoria, he combines a strong delivery record with stakeholder-facing skills that turn complex requirements into reliable, auditable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Basic Electronics, Certificate Basic Electronics at TAFE NSWDistinction; Bachelor of Applied Science Computer Science; Computer Science, Distinction; Bachelor of Applied Science Computer Science; Computer Science at RMIT University
English, intermediate french
Github Skills (10)
net10
asp-net10
direct3d10
csharp10
directinput10
dotnet-core10
keyboard9
game-development9
dotnet9
dotnet-new8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
amerkoleci/Vortice.Windows
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
.NET bindings for Direct3D12, Direct3D11, WIC, Direct2D1, XInput, XAudio, X3DAudio, DXC, Direct3D9 and DirectInput.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 12 commits, 8 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the Vortice.Windows project by adding and modifying DirectInput related code. They added DirectInput tests, implemented DirectInput keyboard buffer properties, and ensured joystick functionality. The changes involved modifying source code files and sample applications to incorporate and test DirectInput features related to keyboard and joystick input.
direct3ddirectinputdotnetxinputdirect3d11
h1cks/SharpDX
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
SharpDX GitHub Repository
Contributions:8 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
sharpdx
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