Max Schaefer
Senior DevOps Engineer at Xero
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Schaefer is a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer based in Sydney with 14 years of experience building and modernizing cloud platforms for large enterprises. He has led multi-client migrations and infrastructure modernization efforts—particularly around Google Cloud, Apigee X, Terraform, and CI/CD automation—delivering measurable reductions in turnaround time and operational costs for clients like Macquarie, News Corp and Ramsay Health Care. At Mantel Group he combined platform engineering and AI-driven solutions to automate electricity meter reading workflows, and at Cognizant Servian he deployed Terraform Enterprise and accelerated delivery patterns through pair programming and mentoring. Known for turning legacy systems into standardized, scalable landing zones, he blends hands-on implementation with leadership of cross-functional teams. He’s practical yet curious, with a track record of saving time for users and operations through automation and thoughtful system design.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Killarney Heights High SchoolCertificate III Information Technology, Certificate III Information Technology at TAFE NSWBachelor's Degree Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology at Macquarie UniversityForeign Exchange Semester, Foreign Exchange Semester at University of Waterloo
English, German
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
maxexcloo/Minimal
Aug 2011 - Aug 2014
Contributions:64 commits in 3 years
maxexcloo/DNS-Tunnel
Apr 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:31 commits, 2 issues in 5 months
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