Summary
Peta Thames is an experienced infrastructure and storage architect with 11 years in senior technical and management roles, currently running Jumping Goats Bar while bringing hands-on IT leadership to every project. Her career spans high-stakes roles at Deloitte, CloudTrek and Betfair where she designed and migrated large-scale storage environments, managed PCI-compliant databases, and coordinated complex datacentre moves. She specialises in NetApp, Veeam, VMware and enterprise backup/disaster-recovery strategies, with a track record of migrating thousands of VMs and improving performance and reliability. Peta blends technical depth with practical operations guidance—creating runbooks, delivering training, and stepping into last-line support when needed. Colleagues rely on her for vendor management and pragmatic architectural reviews that balance risk, cost and performance. Trained in psychology (BA Hons), she pairs technical problem-solving with an uncommon focus on people and process.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons), Psychology, BA (Hons), Psychology at University of Wollongong