Phil Howlett is a seasoned Technical Consultant and systems engineer with over three decades of IT experience and 15 years focused on cloud, DC and infrastructure roles across government and enterprise. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Windows, Unix, VMware, Nutanix, VDI, storage, Citrix, Azure and Kubernetes with a reputation for solving problems others label "too hard"—earning the nickname "the Whizz" among peers. Phil has led and mentored teams responsible for high-availability services at scale, migrated legacy systems into modern cloud-native environments, and implemented DevOps practices like Azure DevOps agent integrations. Based in Brisbane, he pairs relentless analytical curiosity with a pragmatic drive to find cost-effective, efficiency-boosting solutions and is actively exploring how AI and automation will reshape infrastructure operations. An avid tinkerer (GitHub bio: "World domination, one repository at a time..."), he brings both durable institutional knowledge and a continual appetite for innovative tools and strategies.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Diploma of Business, Commercial Data Processing, Associate Diploma of Business, Commercial Data Processing at Sydney Institute of Technology
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