Andrew Johnson
Lead Platform Engineer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Johnson is a Lead Platform Engineer based in Melbourne with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud and on‑premise infrastructures that prioritise security, resilience, and repeatability. He has led platform teams at Octopus Energy and now Kraken, specialising in matching the right mix of tools, processes and conventions to real operational use cases in Agile/DevOps environments. His background spans deep UNIX/Linux systems engineering, configuration management, CI/CD and distributed platforms (Kafka, CloudFoundry) across both enterprise and energy sectors. Andrew is pragmatic about observability and metrics, using data-driven insight to tune environments rather than relying on one-size-fits-all stacks. Colleagues describe him as a systems thinker who bridges hands-on implementation with platform strategy, and who consistently reduces operational toil through automation. He’s self‑taught in many cloud and infrastructure skills, bringing a practical curiosity that surfaces non-obvious trade-offs in large-scale platform design.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Swinburne University of TechnologySelf Educated
Japanese, German
Github Skills (28)
pingdom8
monitor6
splunk5
puppet5
server-monitor5
reporter4
plugin3
hero3
security3
serverless2
management2
aws2
serverless-framework2
agent2
hiera1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sevaine/js-sumo-logger
Jun 2018 - Jul 2020
Sumo Logic JavaScript SDK for Logging
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
loggerjavascriptloggingsdksumo-logic
sevaine/aws_helper_scripts
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Helper scripts for supporting AWS
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
botohelper-scriptspython3boto3aws
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