Summary
Michael Kennedy is a Design Lead and experienced cloud-native platform architect with 10+ years building long-lived systems across enterprise and public cloud environments. Based in Brisbane, he has led platform and network initiatives for organisations including Endava, F5 and the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, combining hands-on infrastructure engineering with solution design and cross-functional leadership. A pragmatic technologist and FOSS advocate, he brings deep operational experience from networking and security through to modern cloud architectures and automation. Michael’s background spans telco, financial services and critical national infrastructure, and he’s known for treating platforms as durable products rather than one-off projects. An IoT enthusiast, he often bridges edge use-cases with cloud-native patterns to deliver resilient, maintainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology at University of Southern Queensland
English