Summary
Wayne Lee-archer is a seasoned solution architecture manager and geospatial specialist with over 25 years in GIS, location intelligence and developer-focused technology roles, now leading Industry X architecture at Accenture. He spent nearly two decades at Esri Australia driving Web GIS adoption, utilities sector solutions and evangelising cutting-edge spatial thinking while hosting the GIS Directions podcast. Wayne blends hands-on technical depth—from .NET systems and rapid application architectures to Kubernetes, blockchain, ML and AI—with a strategic eye for deploying scalable geospatial infrastructures for large organisations. Known for getting "hands dirty" in emerging domains, he pairs deep domain expertise with practical delivery experience across government, utilities and commercial projects. Based in Canberra, he’s equally comfortable mentoring teams, debating FOSS approaches or prototyping experimental integrations between spatial platforms and modern cloud-native stacks.
14 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BAppComp Applied Computing, BAppComp Applied Computing at University of Tasmania
Grade 11/12, Grade 11/12 at Newstead College
8/10, 8/10 at King Island District High School