Jarrad O'brien
Azure DevOps Engineer at SureDeploy
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJarrad O'Brien is an Azure DevOps Engineer based in Sydney with 10 years of hands-on experience architecting and automating cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure and CI/CD platforms. He has delivered measurable enterprise impact—most notably implementing $2.5M USD/year cost savings through storage and backup optimisations—and built resilient pipelines and data workflows that process thousands of messages daily. Comfortable across the stack, he blends PowerShell, ARM/IaC, Graph API integrations, and C#/.NET troubleshooting with front-end React fixes to keep end-to-end systems healthy. He has led migrations and pipeline consolidations (Bamboo/Octopus → Azure DevOps) and routinely automates VM-context tasks and AD workflows to reduce manual toil. Known for rapid proof-of-concepts and pragmatic automation, he balances short-term wins with production stability. A Macquarie University software engineering graduate, he brings a methodical, cost-conscious approach to cloud engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering at Macquarie University
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Github Skills (34)
microsoft10
microsoft-azure10
arm10
azure10
bicep9
arm-templates9
powershell9
react8
microsoft-graph8
javascript7
graph7
web-development7
azure-resource-manager6
asp-net6
active-directory6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jarrad-obrien/sql-server-2014
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:79 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
jarrad-obrien/azure-docs
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
azure-cognitive-servicesmicrosoft-azureazuremicrosoft
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