Rob Walsh
IT Portfolio & Business Intelligence Manager at SunRice Group
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Walsh is an experienced IT portfolio and business intelligence manager with over 8 years in senior delivery roles and a career in technology stretching back to the 1990s. He combines pragmatic, certified programme and portfolio management (PRINCE2, MSP, MoP, ITIL) with hands-on technical delivery—leading ERP, CRM, GIS, cloud and BI implementations across agribusiness and enterprise environments. At SunRice he now runs the IT portfolio and champions extending BI capability, having previously managed digital transformation programs for sustainability and agribusiness. He also runs a consultancy delivering system migrations, application reviews and technical mentoring, bridging strategic oversight with practical execution. An often overlooked strength is his test-focused engineering experience reflected in open-source contributions to the ZIO project, where he improved test reliability and migrated tests to ZIO Test—evidence of his attention to quality beyond pure project governance. Based in New South Wales, Rob is known for turning complex requirements into tangible, auditable business benefits.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Information Systems, Bachelor of Information Technology, Information Systems at Charles Sturt University
Github Skills (11)
scala10
zio10
functional-programming10
testing10
async9
test-automation9
asynchronous9
test-framework9
concurrency7
concurrent-programming4
effects4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zio/zio
Oct 2019 - Aug 2022
ZIO — A type-safe, composable library for async and concurrent programming in Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 17 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on migrating existing tests to ZIO Test, updating and adapting a significant portion of the testing infrastructure. They refactored and updated several specifications related to environment and core functionality, including tests for Console, System, Scheduler, Clock, and Random within the ZIO framework. Their contributions involved code restructuring, bug fixes, and improvements to test flakiness, improving overall test reliability and coverage. They also worked on refactoring RandomSpec to use Gen.
functional-programmingqueuesstreamsasynchronicityasync
robmwalsh/zio-sql
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Type-safe, composable SQL for ZIO applications
Contributions:35 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 4 months
ziosqltype-safescalacomposable
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