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.
14 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 (24)
hashicorp-packer9
landing-zone9
data-connector8
arm8
pac8
packer8
design-principles8
architecture8
quest8
azure-policy7
virtualbox7
scale7
azure7
pipeline6
azure-functions6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
QuestSoftwareTCD/OracleSQOOPconnector
Sep 2011 - Aug 2014
Contributions:50 commits in 2 years 11 months
questconnectordata-connectororaclehadoop
DavidRobson/Enterprise-Scale
Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
The Azure Landing Zones (Enterprise-Scale) architecture provides prescriptive guidance coupled with Azure best practices, and it follows design principles across the critical design areas for organizations to define their Azure architecture
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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