Brendan Thompson
Principal Solutions Architect at BT Systems
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Thompson is a Principal Solutions Architect based in Melbourne with 12 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native and DevOps platforms across enterprise and startup environments. He blends deep Azure and infrastructure-as-code expertise with security-minded engineering, having contributed to the Terraform AzureRM provider—adding NetApp volume root access controls and Management Group integrations. Brendan has a track record of raising DevOps maturity and establishing guilds and platform services at organisations such as Woolworths, NAB and AGL, while running his own development company for internal and Windows Store projects. Comfortable both leading architecture and shipping refactors, he bridges product, security and operations to deliver auditable, scalable systems. Known for practical, code-first solutions, he often surfaces subtle usability improvements in infrastructure tooling that reduce operational friction.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate III Information Technology, Certificate III Information Technology at TAFE NSWHigh School Certificate, High School Certificate at Mt Gravatt State High School
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (17)
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
azure-resource-manager10
terraformer10
go10
aac10
netapp10
infrastructure-as-code10
azure10
event-grid9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
validations7
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Infrastructure Engineer
Back-end Developer & Infrastructure EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 26 days
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily contributed to the Azure Resource Manager Terraform provider, focusing on enhancements to the NetApp volume resource and integration with Management Groups. They added functionality related to root access control for NetApp volumes and refactored field names for clarity. The user also worked on integrating and validating Management Group IDs within the system topic, including adding supporting functions and data source modifications.
azure-resource-managerterraform-providerterraformazure
BrendanThompson/keycrypt
Apr 2014 - Mar 2019
Generate new SSH key and Encrypt with OpenSSL
Contributions:42 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years
opensslssh
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