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Todd hails from North QLD, Australia. After earning a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, he spent ten years designing and testing high voltage power systems. Todd jumped to the software and technology sector in 2016 with the aim of having a greater impact. Working remotely, Todd is passionate about automation, burning inefficiency and above all... fishing. Todd is also an active community member of various local development communities and meetup groups.

Languages

  • Golang
  • Python
  • Ruby

Tools

  • CI/CD platforms
  • Cloud Agnostic
  • Containerisation
  • Helm Charts and Helmfile Templating
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform / AWS CDK / Cloudformation

Frameworks

  • Test Driven Development
  • Agile Delivery
  • Remote Working
  • Asynchronous Communication

Todd Turner

Engineer, Developer, Infrastructure

Sydney, NSW | hi @ toddtee.sh

A motivated engineer who moves organisations from friction to fluency. I enable workflow, process and most importantly, people. A DevOps advocate with a test-driven approach to development. Team collaboration is essential; remote-first and asynchronous communication mentality. I develop solutions with a well-architected foundation, balanced with the aim of delivering value sooner than later.

Experience

Senior Platform Engineer
May 2022 - Present
Nine (ex. Fairfax Media)
— Australia's largest media company.
Full-Time Remote

Provides leadership and technical direction for a product-focused platform team.

  • Recently promoted to this role, I am sure there will be many highlights!
Platform Engineer
April 2020 - May 2022
Nine (ex. Fairfax Media)
— Australia's largest media company.
Full-Time Remote

Reduce friction for application teams to do what they do best.

  • Leveraged the power of CI/CD process to automatically migrate application releases from helm 2.x.x to 3.x.x.
  • Automated the creation and renewal of https redirect handling for several masthead apex domains with Terraform and AWS.
  • Migrated various applications from on-prem hosting to kubernetes.
  • Modernised and improved a legacy infrastructure-as-code tool.
  • Provided support and technical direction to application teams for getting the most out of our platform.
DataOps Engineer
February 2018 - March 2020
Lorica Health
— Analytics powering better healthcare.
The Rocks - Sydney

Managed and automated the ingestion and ETL processing of sensitive health data.

  • Developed an automated, cloud infrastructure, scaling service for AWS resources based on activity in our container orchestration service, Docker Swarm.
  • Automated and extended data processing pipelines ochestrated in Apache Airflow.
  • Cloud Infrastructure management; EC2, AutoScaling Groups, RDS, ECS.
  • Development of dashboards, monitoring and alarms so issues could be quickly identified and resolved. Utilised DataDog, Kibana and Cloudwatch tooling.
  • Incident response management, co-ordination and analysis, included running post-mortems to identify "why" the incident occurred and how we could improve.
Power Systems Engineer
June 2008 - January 2017
Consulting, Testing and Design
Queensland, Australia

Power systems engineer for various companies across Queensland, Australia.

  • Worked in power generation, transmissions and distribution, across a variety of industries including resource processing, LNG and bulk handling.
  • Responsible for the management of commissioning and maintenance activities across various high voltage projects.

Education

Electrical Engineering (Bachelor)
March 2006 - July 2010
Central Queensland University

GPA: 6.34

Information Technology Networking (Diploma)
March 2017 - November 2017
TAFE NSW

References

Todd is a super helpful Platform Engineer. Always willing to step in when someone is stuck and needs some assistance. He also has a very clear and succinct communication style. As a result, I always felt that I was in capable hands if Todd was involved in something I was working on.

— Alex Dess - Full Stack Software Engineer

I think he's cool.

— Mum - Mother