Michael Richardson
Software Engineer at govau
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Richardson is a seasoned DevOps and cloud engineer with 12 years of experience architecting and operating resilient platforms across public and private clouds, including AWS and OpenStack. He has led cloud and platform teams at the Digital Transformation Agency and SBS Australia, bringing deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Terraform, configuration management (Ansible/Puppet/Chef/BOSH), and container tooling. Comfortable across the stack—from Linux/Solaris systems and networking to Go, Python and Ruby programming—he specialises in automating CI/CD, observability and scalable infrastructure for large enterprises. Michael blends systems thinking and Agile practices to deliver customer-focused outcomes, and his background in both consultancy and government digital transformation adds a practical, governance-aware perspective that’s not obvious from tool lists alone.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Telecommunications Engineering at University of Technology, SydneyEpping Boys High School
Github Skills (37)
logging8
graylog8
cloud-foundry8
backend7
server-side7
nodejs6
static-site6
foundry6
prometheus5
webservice5
bosh5
ruby4
frontend4
pcf4
addon4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
govau/deploy-prometheus
Nov 2017 - Sep 2019
deployment pipeline and BOSH operators for prometheus
Contributions:24 PRs, 71 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 10 months
prometheusgovau-author-cga
govau/boshreleases
Jan 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:110 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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