Summary
Pat Hermens is a pragmatic Australian technology leader with 12+ years of hands‑on engineering and management experience who currently leads AI Accelerated Engineering and Agentic SDLC transformation as Director, Market Solutions at Slalom. He blends deep technical roots in .NET and cloud with practical delivery expertise to help organisations move AI from one-off experiments into governed, measurable, and repeatable engineering systems. Comfortable both in the IDE and at the executive table, Pat designs enablement models, governance, metrics, and productionised assets that scale beyond pilots. Known for reducing delivery friction and improving flow and quality, he partners across engineering, platform, product and leadership to make AI adoption defensible and sustainable. Based in Sydney, he brings a track record of building remote teams, improving CI/CD and testing practices, and turning complex problems into clear, operational solutions.
12 years of coding experience