Summary
Anthony Ison is a seasoned full-stack leader with 11 years of focused experience delivering practical, business-driven software solutions across enterprise and retail sectors. Currently Lead Full Stack Development at BHP, he specialises in Angular, .NET Core, cloud (Azure/AWS), SQL, performance tuning, containers and Kubernetes, and prefers incremental refactoring over rewrites. He has a strong knack for problem definition—believing that clear problems make solutions trivial—and applies that to architect event-driven systems and CI/CD-enabled modern web apps. His career includes migrating legacy products to cloud-native stacks, driving supply-chain optimisations with EventBridge and Lambdas, and improving team capability and delivery maturity. Based in Queensland with an engineering degree from the University of Queensland, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a service mindset that prioritises customer value over perfection. A subtle differentiator: he consistently turns short-term fixes into lasting velocity gains through targeted performance tuning and incremental design improvements.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Maryborough State High School
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of Queensland