Andrew Hatch
Head of Platform EngineeringSeek
Hailing from a background predominantly based in IT consultancy roles working on small through to large scale IT solutions in roles spanning across Architecture, Development, Testing, IM and DevOps in Australia and India, Andrew has based himself at Seek since 2014. Initially focused on evolving a traditional IT operations team to adopt and follow software engineering principles and automation to deliver better outcomes for the business, Andrew then helped guide the migration and delivery of production applications and systems into the cloud.
Currently managing a team of 12 highly skilled engineers working with all of Seeks Product delivery streams and IT teams, Andrew has a real passion for working in dynamic, innovative and challenging environments building high-performing teams of talented and unique people while still enjoying getting his hands dirty with code. A life-long inhabitant of the Mornington Peninsula, Andrew loves spending time with his wife and two kids, surfing waves down the coast and fiddling with old Datsun’s
Talks I've Given
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Learning from Incidents
Featuring Andrew Hatch
Aligning to a DevOps culture has seen many organisations gain a distinct competitive advantage in their marketplace - especially if they started changing their thinking early which Seek did. Frequent daily deployments, teams owning what they build, the ability to iterate and deliver Products...challenges -
How IoT Helped Seek Solve Load and Scale Issues (But not Quite the Issues you Think!)
Featuring Andrew Hatch
With a building bursting at the seams and a move to a new location some years away one of our Hackathon teams came up with an idea to improve the “facilities” for the building staff. Initially what started as a bit of a joke soon grew into a fully-fledged idea of building a...
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