Colin Panisset
Consulting Principal at Cevo Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Panisset is a Consulting Principal and seasoned DevOps transformation leader with 13+ years of experience helping organisations adopt resilient, automated delivery pipelines across cloud and datacentre environments. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Linux/Solaris, AWS, infrastructure automation and CI/CD with a strong record of technical leadership—from designing global security and access systems at Sun to leading infrastructure strategy at REA Group and Cevo. Colin excels at translating cultural and structural change into measurable business value, coaching teams toward high-throughput, self-service delivery while retaining pragmatic central controls. He contributes to open-source tooling—most notably practical improvements to aws-google-auth to support diverse MFA flows and Python 3 compatibility—demonstrating a preference for refactoring to reduce dependencies. Based in Melbourne, he combines long-term infrastructure craftsmanship with a knack for teaching cloud mindset through multi-day workshops and repeatable patterns.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.App.Sci, Computing Science, B.App.Sci, Computing Science at University of Technology Sydney
Github Skills (14)
authentication10
user-authentication10
boto10
aws10
google10
python10
saml10
http-request9
beautifulsoup8
lxml8
security7
cli7
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cevoaustralia/aws-google-auth
Jun 2017 - Oct 2022
Provides AWS STS credentials based on Google Apps SAML SSO auth (what a jumble!)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 87 commits, 23 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily focused on implementing and refactoring core functionality within the `aws-google-auth` project, which facilitates AWS STS credential acquisition using Google Apps SSO. Their contributions involved refactoring existing code to avoid dependencies, and handling different MFA authentication flows like SMS, Google Prompt and TOTP. They also addressed issues by updating dependencies and ensuring Python 3 compatibility.
pythongooglesingle-sign-onamazonauthentication
cevoaustralia/cevoaustralia.github.io
Aug 2016 - Jun 2020
Static website for cevo.com.au
Contributions:83 PRs, 179 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 10 months
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