Michael Diender
Consultant Lead Cloud Engineer at Mantel Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Diender is a Consultant Lead Cloud Engineer based in Melbourne with over a decade in IT and more than five years focused on Google Cloud, guiding teams through design, implementation and optimisation of GCP engagements. He blends hands-on delivery with strategic practice-building, currently concentrating on GCP Foundations, cloud security and exploring Agentic AI as a productivity lever in cloud engineering. His consulting footprint spans major Australian enterprises and product companies—ANZ, IAG, Australia Post, Canva and Temple & Webster—often embedded as a lead engineer through Mantel Group. Originally a Java developer, he brings strong application-centred thinking to cloud-native architecture and operational rigour. Collected consulting stints across finance, retail and digital platforms reflect an ability to translate complex compliance and scale requirements into pragmatic, repeatable foundations. A graduate in IT with additional study in philosophy, he pairs technical depth with a thoughtful, systems-oriented approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate in Philosophy (C1060), Graduate Certificate in Philosophy (C1060) at Murdoch UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (Information Technology) Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (Information Technology) Information Technology at Swinburne University of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
puppet10
oak10
dispatcher10
docker-image10
packer10
adobe-experience-manager10
sling10
aws10
crx10
aem10
experience-manager9
osgi9
adobe9
infrastructure9
jetty6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shinesolutions/aem-stack-manager
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:49 commits, 5 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 months
michaeldiender-shinesolutions/packer-aem-bootstrap
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:14 PRs, 87 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
adobe-experience-manageradobepackermachine-imagesexperience-manager
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