Dean Hamstead
Network Automation Engineer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Hamstead is a seasoned network automation engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building and automating large-scale infrastructure for carriers and hyperscalers, including five years on Meta’s Edge Platform and now driving automation at Megaport’s flagship NaaS. He blends deep systems and networking expertise—hardware lifecycle, CDN/edge architecture, provisioning and firmware management—with a strong software orientation (Ansible, CI, custom Perl services) to deliver resilient, scalable platforms. Dean has led migrations from on-prem stacks to cloud, designed SOEs for thousands of servers, and repeatedly improved operational tooling to reduce manual toil. Based in Sydney, he pairs academic training in networks and computing with a knack for practical engineering: among other things he ran a long-running LAN event series, showing an ability to organize complex, community-facing technical operations.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Information Technology (Networks), Master’s Degree Information Technology (Networks) at Macquarie UniversityBachelor of Engineering (Computing) (Hons) Engineering Physics Mathematics Telcommunications Electronics Computing, Bachelor of Engineering (Computing) (Hons) Engineering Physics Mathematics Telcommunications Electronics Computing at Western Sydney University
English, tonga (tonga islands)
Github Skills (200)
bug-tracker10
perl10
rex10
project-management10
thrift10
database-access10
oracle-database10
opnsense10
freebsd10
perl-module10
dbi10
dbd10
filemaker10
catalyst10
lookup-table10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ByteFoundryAU/awesome-bytefoundry
Feb 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
djzort/perl-monit-http-api
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 tags, 1 comment in 7 years
oopoop-interfacemonit
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