Summary
Evan Koutsandreou is a senior infrastructure and solutions architect with over two decades of hands-on experience designing and delivering mission-critical storage and AI-ready platforms for tier-1 enterprises across telecom, finance, retail and eResearch. Currently leading ANZ sales engineering at WEKA after a Principal Architect role at NetApp, he blends pre-sales leadership with deep technical ownership of large accounts like Telstra and major universities. Evan’s practical expertise spans scale-out file/object systems (IBM Spectrum Scale, Isilon), AI workflow integration including RAG, and automation with Ansible, Terraform and Kubernetes across hybrid cloud environments. He is known for translating complex technical features into business value, running workshops and proof-of-concepts that accelerate AI adoption and operational confidence. A career-long advocate of DevOps and infrastructure-as-code, he also built and scaled managed services teams and delivered one of Australia’s largest GPFS projects, revealing a rare combination of field engineering, customer-facing evangelism and delivery at scale.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Kangan Institute