Phil Jay
Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Jay is an experienced engineering leader with 12 years building and scaling cloud and platform teams across major Australian organisations, now leading Platform Engineering at Reece Group. He blends a strong people-first management style with deep technical credibility—having moved between hands-on cloud/DevOps roles and product-facing delivery leadership at NAB, REA Group and Australia Post. Phil excels at turning complex infrastructure challenges into pragmatic, stakeholder-aligned solutions while coaching teams to improve delivery and ownership. Based in Melbourne, he has a track record of growing cross-functional capability during periods of rapid change and operationalising cloud-native practices. A former research engineer, he brings an analytical mindset and curiosity that often surfaces practical, data-informed improvements behind the scenes.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Swinburne University of Technology
Github Skills (175)
package-management10
python10
fits10
pyusb10
serve10
ssh10
cfn-lint10
secrets10
user-guide10
temper10
azure-devops10
vault10
ansible10
dependency-manager10
gitlab10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ps-jay/dashing-pjay
Jun 2015 - Jun 2024
My home dashing.io
Contributions:12 PRs, 32 pushes, 17 branches in 9 years 2 months
home-assistanthome-automationdashing
ps-jay/pyraven-mqtt
Jul 2021 - Dec 2023
Transfers data from a Rainforest Automation RAVEn USB stick to an MQTT topic
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
data-transfersstickmqtt-topicravenmqtt
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