Summary
Torsten Leibrich is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Perth with over a decade of experience guiding cross-functional teams to modernise cloud estates and deliver customer outcomes using lean and agile practices. He has progressed from hands-on quality and delivery roles at ThoughtWorks to leading multi-squad cloud platform efforts at Bankwest, spanning private cloud, Azure and AWS, and influencing cloud adoption and compliance for large-scale enterprise workloads. Known for combining technical fluency with coaching and product thinking, he has led transformations that reduced risk through frequent releases, feature flags and strong automation. Torsten’s background in both product management and agile coaching gives him a rare ability to align roadmaps, engineering execution and organisational change. He thrives on clarifying complex problems—whether migrating legacy Rails apps or enabling extreme-risk workloads in public cloud—and scaling teams to meet them.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Double degree in economics and computer science, Bachelor of Science, Double degree in economics and computer science at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
English, German