Summary
Troy Astle is a Technical Leader in SRE with 12 years of experience designing and operating large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems, currently leading SRE efforts at Cisco Meraki from Perth, Australia. He has a strong Linux, Java and Python background and extensive hands-on experience building Kubernetes-based container platforms and bespoke orchestration systems across hybrid and AWS environments. Troy has progressed from software and systems engineering into people leadership and engineering management, hiring and guiding globally distributed teams while still owning technical direction and platform reliability. His career includes deep work in data and stream processing (Kafka, Storm, Vertica) and long tenures at Cisco and IBM, giving him both operational rigor and product-facing engineering experience. Colleagues would note his blend of pragmatic infrastructure craftsmanship and strategic platform thinking that helps teams move from prototype to resilient production. An understated strength is his track record of remote leadership—running complex, globally dispersed projects effectively from Western Australia.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Dist), BSc (Dist) at Curtin University of Technology
BBA, BBA at Curtin University