Summary
Pete De Zwart is a seasoned infrastructure and systems consultant with 14 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available platforms, most recently running de Zwart Networks from New South Wales. He spent over a decade at Atlassian advancing Kubernetes, performance engineering, and platform automation—work that included GC tuning, global capacity planning, and production system hardening. Pete blends hands-on engineering with operational leadership, having built service catalogues, monitoring frameworks, and onboarding procedures that turned tribal knowledge into repeatable processes. He also mentors students through university PASS/PAL programs, reflecting a long-standing commitment to teaching and knowledge transfer. Known for a dry wit ("old man yells at cloud") and a classical-latin GitHub quip, he brings pragmatic skepticism and deep systems-level curiosity to cloud migrations and infrastructure reliability.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BCompSci, Secure Distributed Systems, BCompSci, Secure Distributed Systems at University of Wollongong