Lachlan De Waard
Manager - Information Technology & Infrastructure
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLachlan De Waard is an IT and infrastructure manager with 13 years' experience leading strategy, service excellence and operational technology across education and utilities sectors in Brisbane. He combines hands-on systems engineering—Windows/Linux, Azure, Intune, virtualization, networking and automation—with policy, standards and project delivery experience from roles at Seqwater and multiple schools. Known for modernisation projects and extensive automation (PowerShell, Python, SQL), he has driven migrations, security and infrastructure redesigns that reduced complexity and improved reliability across large estates. At CoAct he now focuses on aligning IT strategy with organisational outcomes, ensuring technology enables business priorities rather than dictating them. A practical technologist who still codes and scripts, Lachlan brings a rare blend of top-to-bottom administrative oversight and deep technical craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Management Information Systems General, Bachelor of Information Technology Management Information Systems General at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Github Skills (200)
jplayer10
thunderbird10
file-sharing10
api10
time-tracking10
json10
json-api10
distributions10
subsonic10
html5-audio10
php10
privacy10
hosting10
collaboration10
ampache10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
lachlan-00/ampache
Jun 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:12 PRs, 130 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 4 months
audio-videostreaming-applicationvideosweb-basedstreaming
ampache/python3-ampache
Sep 2019 - Feb 2023
Python XML and JSON API library for Ampache
Contributions:23 releases, 384 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 4 months
ampacheapipythonxmlapi-library
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