Career on smcleod.net

Camels Dressed As Unicorns

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 08:10:00 +0000

Stop trying to hire with titles like ‘DevOps Engineer’ or ‘Cloud Engineer’

“DevOps is … not a job title”

“It’s more of a cultural practice, like innovation, and it makes just as little sense hiring “innovation engineers” and expecting your organisation to be innovative, without also creating the culture to foster innovation.” (Joel Shea when responding to this posted on LinkedIn)

In most cases it’s clear the organisation doesn’t truly know what they want or need and likely don’t understand the nuances of the aspects of engineering.

Looking For New Opportunities

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:30:00 +0000

As stated in my announcement post - after 7~ years, I resigned from Infoxchange several months ago.

I planned on taking a holiday, relaxing, decompressing, dipping my toes in some off-the-shelf tech I haven’t spent a lot of time with and performing some personal growth through reading a number of books that have been sitting on my ’to read’ shelf.

This is exactly what I’ve done.

I’m now open to new opportunities

I’d rather find a workplace that I can add great value too and be happy to work with than rush into a new role quickly, obviously if something great turns up right away - I’ll pursue it.

Leaving Infoxchange

Sat, 29 Jun 2019 09:00:00 +0000

After 7~ years, I have resigned from Infoxchange.

In 2012 I was hired to work with Infoxchange to “shake things up” (in the Systems Operations team) and stabilise the hosting environment.

As Team Lead of Systems Operations I was tasked with melding the team and then for us to work to provide a stable, robust, modern and scalable platform for Infoxchange developed application hosting and product delivery and in a short time, with a small budget - we did just that.

Search - A Journey of Delivery on a Budget

Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

“Search - A Journey of Delivery on a Budget”

Presented a Melbourne Search - July 2014 - “Search - A Journey of Delivery on a Budget” (Click for slides)

Talk - 24 Months

Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The way we work at Infoxchange has changed greatly.

A retrospective journey into transforming Infoxchange’s technology and culture over the past 24 months - presented a Melbourne DevOps - December 2014