Kieran Jacobsen
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolKieran Jacobsen is a pragmatic IT leader with 13 years’ experience designing and delivering cloud-first, automated infrastructure and business systems across enterprise and services organisations. Currently Head of Business Systems at Phocas Software, he previously led internal delivery and technology uplift programs at Telstra Purple/Readify, marrying Azure, Office 365 and CI/CD automation to real-world stakeholder needs. He’s known for building repeatable automation (PowerShell, ARM templates, Azure Automation) and for turning complex integrations and migrations into reliable MVPs that scale. A Microsoft MVP and seasoned conference speaker based in Melbourne, he combines hands-on technical depth with people leadership—hiring, mentoring and unifying teams across acquisitions. An active community member, he brings a consultative approach that balances buy vs build decisions, vendor strategy and pragmatic security.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information Technology, Bachelor, Information Technology at The University of Queensland
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
poshsecurity/Posh-SYSLOG
Oct 2013 - Jul 2019
Send SYSLOG messages from PowerShell
Contributions:8 releases, 194 commits, 18 PRs in 5 years 9 months
powershellsyslogsecuritysyslog-messagespowershell-gallery
planetpowershell/planetpowershell
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
Planet PowerShell is an aggregator of PowerShell community content. The goal is to provide a convenient RSS feed that contains all of the content generated by community members.
Contributions:37 reviews, 623 commits, 453 PRs in 6 years 1 month
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