Brett Tasker
Principal Platform Engineer
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Tasker is a Principal Platform Engineer based in Wellington with 11 years’ experience designing secure, resilient cloud platforms for web hosting and government clients. He combines hands-on AWS architecture and Kubernetes planning with a strong security and operations background, having led SIEM integrations, large-scale logging solutions, and incident response coaching. At Silverstripe he translated technical options into business cases, costed proposals and client-winning platform offerings while driving performance and security initiatives. Known for building high-trust teams, he focuses on capability growth and practical, auditable solutions that balance scalability and cost. An early adopter of ITIL practices and a practitioner of performance instrumentation, he brings both systems-level rigor and client-facing clarity to complex cloud projects.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Accelerated C++ Programming Course, Computer Software Engineering, Accelerated C++ Programming Course, Computer Software Engineering at WeltecAll, All at Hutt International Boys' School
Github Skills (112)
cms10
silverstripe10
mvc10
thesaurus10
scheduled-tasks10
php-framework10
mvc-framework10
s610
php10
php-cs-fixer9
job-queue9
composer9
docker-image9
rewrite9
mailhog9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
brettt89/silverstripe-docker
Apr 2017 - Aug 2022
Silverstripe - PHP Docker Environments
Contributions:7 releases, 35 commits, 56 PRs in 5 years 4 months
mailhogs6docker-environmentsdocker-imagesilverstripe-web
silverstripeltd/puppet-sushi
Jun 2018 - May 2024
Contributions:5 reviews, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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