Andrew Payne
Founder at Cicada Innovations
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolAndrew Payne is an experienced founder and program leader with 12 years delivering data-driven and AI programs across government, higher education, telecommunications and retail. He builds empathetic AI products that act on real-world signals and currently leads careplans AI while participating in Cicada Innovations, combining startup grit with institutional program delivery. His background in telecommunications and computer science underpins deep expertise in cloud data platforms, integration, analytics and governance—having led large migrations and analytics platforms using Snowflake, AWS, GCP and Talend. Andrew consistently bridges strategy and delivery, turning complex privacy, compliance and cross-agency requirements into operational solutions for Student 360, transport analytics and statewide data sharing. Notably, he pairs hands-on technical credentials (Google Cloud Data Engineering) with decades of program leadership, meaning he’s as comfortable sketching architecture as he is running procurement and delivery at scale. Based in Sydney, he brings a pragmatic, system-level approach to building trustworthy AI that listens and acts.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Strategic Management Program Marketing/Marketing Management, Strategic Management Program Marketing/Marketing Management at Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM)High School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Catoosa High SchoolGoogle Cloud Data Engineering Data science, Google Cloud Data Engineering Data science at GoogleBachelor of Science - BS Double degree: Computer Science & Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Double degree: Computer Science & Statistics at Macquarie University
Github Skills (42)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
HalleyAssist/balena-allwinner
Dec 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:37 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 6 months
andrew-payne/Positioning
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:45 pushes in 2 months
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