Summary
Trent Steenholdt is a cloud and automation specialist with seven years of experience designing Azure-first platforms, leading DevOps/DevSecOps initiatives, and delivering repeatable “hero” assets for enterprise customers. As Principal Consultant at Insight and previously at Telstra Purple and MakerX, he blends solution and enterprise architecture with presales leadership, mentorship and measurable reliability improvements such as reduced MTTR and left-shifted testing. He founded Cortana Design, which produced Australia’s most-used sports referee health and support tool, demonstrating a knack for productising niche operational needs. Based in Perth, Trent also applies leadership and coaching skills off the keyboard as a long-serving cricket umpire, association president and current match officials observer. Comfortable operating as a virtual CTO, he pairs hands-on technical delivery with people and go-to-market strategy. He balances technical depth with practical business outcomes, routinely turning complex cloud requirements into usable, repeatable solutions.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Microsoft Technologies, Virtualisation, Networking, Security, Microsoft Technologies, Virtualisation, Networking, Security at Excom Education
WACE, Accounting, Information Technology, Business Management, 12, WACE, Accounting, Information Technology, Business Management, 12 at Kent Street Senior High School
English, Croatian