David Robson
DevOps Platform Architect
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Robson is a DevOps Platform Architect based in Melbourne with 14 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native, highly available systems—primarily on Microsoft Azure. He leads cross-functional teams to build automated, secure, and scalable platform architectures, translating stakeholder requirements into operational code and clear documentation. His background spans deep database expertise (Oracle, Exadata, RAC, Data Guard) through to serverless microservices and identity systems, enabling pragmatic integration across infrastructure, app, and data layers. At Quest Software he has driven migrations to cloud, implemented governance for security and cost, and championed DevOps culture and monitoring to sustain production uptime. Notably, he combines hands-on platform coding and architecture planning with an ability to design predictive diagnostics and high-performance data connectors from his earlier database engineering work. Colleagues rely on him for technical leadership that balances reliability, reusability and practical operational standards.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate IV in Information Technology (Database Administration), Information Technology, Certificate IV in Information Technology (Database Administration), Information Technology at Box Hill InstituteCarey Baptist Grammar SchoolBox Hill Senior Secondary
English
Github Skills (21)
azure8
arm8
landing-zone8
packer8
azure-policy8
architecture7
data-connector7
azure-architecture6
vsphere6
quest6
devops5
vmware4
go3
infrastructure-as-code3
ingress2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
QuestSoftwareTCD/OracleSQOOPconnector
Sep 2011 - Aug 2014
Contributions:50 commits in 2 years 11 months
questconnectordata-connectororaclehadoop
DavidRobson/packer-examples-for-vsphere
Nov 2023 - Nov 2025
Packer Examples for vSphere
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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