Summary
Ross Crawfordd'heureuse is a seasoned software engineer and two-time startup founder with 13 years’ experience building and operating cloud-native and bare-metal platforms. He specializes in DevOps, CI/CD, release management and platform automation, having led platform architecture and teams at Mindcurv and Squiz and driven release and dev-ops functions at Parfümerie Douglas. Comfortable from infrastructure-as-code to Kubernetes and SaltStack, he blends hands-on implementation with continuous improvement and operational discipline. Ross has worn technical leadership hats from CTO and co-founder roles to scrum master and team lead, giving him a pragmatic product-focused perspective on engineering tradeoffs. Based in Sydney, he’s equally at home architecting scalable systems and troubleshooting low-level infrastructure, with a habit of “building stuff” end-to-end. Notably, his background spans both legacy bare-metal operations and modern cloud orchestration, which helps teams migrate safely while keeping delivery velocity high.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
German, English