Mike Mochan
AWS Platform Engineer Kubernetes Engineer
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Mochan is an experienced cloud and platform engineer with 17 years in infrastructure and a deep background in Oracle Fusion Middleware that shaped his configuration-management expertise. He designs and automates AWS and Azure environments, favours Python and Go for tooling, and has hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes. An AWS Certified Solutions Architect, he has delivered cloud-native platforms and SRE/security work across public-sector and enterprise organisations including the ATO, Geoscience Australia and Tabcorp. Mike is an active contributor to upstream Ansible modules—improving EC2 VPC peering, NACLs and cross-account workflows—demonstrating a commitment to production-ready automation. Based in Queensland, he enjoys mentoring engineers and translating long-running legacy infrastructure knowledge into repeatable, automated cloud practices. Notably, his career arc from WebLogic build-and-integration roles to modern platform engineering gives him rare end-to-end visibility of enterprise systems.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Dundee High School
Github Skills (23)
ec10
json10
botocore10
boto10
python10
vpc10
automation10
amazon-ec210
aws10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
networking9
cloud-infrastructure9
devops9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible-modules-extras
Nov 2015 - Sep 2016
Ansible extra modules - these modules ship with ansible
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 PRs, 42 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Mike's contributions primarily involve developing and maintaining Ansible modules for managing AWS resources, specifically focusing on EC2 VPC Network ACLs and VPC peering. Their work includes implementing new modules, refactoring existing code for improved functionality, and adding features such as tagging capabilities. Furthermore, the user demonstrates DevOps skills by ensuring code compatibility across different Python versions and environments. The user also developed a module for managing cross-account VPC peering connections.
ansible
ansible/ansible
Dec 2015 - May 2016
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 4 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the `ec2_vpc_peer` and `ec2_vpc_nacl` Ansible modules, demonstrating expertise in cloud automation. Their work involved creating, modifying, and deleting VPC peering connections, including cross-account scenarios, along with managing network ACLs for AWS VPCs. The user's contributions included refactoring code, adding tagging functionality, and updating documentation, enhancing the module's functionality and usability.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
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