Lachlan Derrick Email & Phone Number

Perth, Wa, Au

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

- Guiding and delivering initiatives across a large scale hybrid Cloud/On-Prem environment.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

- Drove Cloud team delivery cadence, running team delivery standups/meetings and providing direction on business priorities to team resources. Advised best practices on both technical implementations and non-technical delivery practices to ensure the team achieved outcomes for the business. Worked with operations team to ensure operational targets being achieved.- Implemented features in the Woodside Velocity Cloud Codebase, utilising IAC (Cloudformation), automation languages (Ansible/Jinja) and CI/CD tools (Github/AWS CodePipeline) to iterate upon the Woodside AWS Platform at speed and scale.- Managed and supported the Woodside AWS network via IAC and CI/CD, utilising services such as AWS VPC (Transit Gateway, TGW Route Tables), Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, as well as accompanying security tools such as Illumio.- Enhanced the security posture of the Woodside AWS environment, working with team to implement tiered access model, utilising SCP/Permission Set/highly privileged access guardrails with supporting AWS Config rules for validation and alerting.- Engineered and implemented serverless data pipelines to support Woodside SIEM tools and SOC operation, utilising services such as AWS Eventbridge, Kinesis, Lambda and SQS.- Championed AWS at Woodside, coordinating AWS training sessions and AWS GameDays both in Perth and Houston locations alongside AWS staff.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

- Worked in a team of engineers to architect, deploy and maintain best practice solutions for an AWS Cloud platform spanning hundreds of accounts.- Engineered and deployed systems and applications in AWS to meet business requirements. Regularly utilised AWS Services such as EC2, Lambda, API Gateway S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Storage Gateway and IAM.- Provided technical support and troubleshooting for infrastructure in the Woodside AWS environment.- Enhanced team performance by automating manual processes, including enabling AWS Account requirements to be automatically gathered and translated into IAC.- Administered the Woodside Azure AD environment, creating Azure applications alongside internal teams and vendors including SSO configurations.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

- Built business relationships with product owners to identify key opportunities for AI implementation at Woodside.- Supported the development of AI analysis tools, extracting key data insights from thousands of PDF documents.- Developed Neo4j queries to deliver new capabilities in Woodside's AI assistant.- Planned and executed a full upgrade and migration of Woodside's Neo4j knowledge graph database in AWS with minimal downtime for users.- Implemented best practice high availability, load balancing and security techniques in AWS to increase database cluster performance and reliability, utilising services such as AWS EC2, AWS Load Balancers, AWS Auto Scaling Groups & launch templates all deployed as IAC using CloudFormation.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

- Worked as part of a team to design and deliver the ServiceNow platform at Woodside during the implementation project.- Accelerated the adoption of the ServiceNow platform by providing SME technical support to customers, running workshops and encouraging ITIL best practices.- Championed the cadence and Agile culture of the ServiceNow team to perform and excel under the high demand environment post project go-live.- Developed and implemented ServiceNow back end / front end components and workflows successfully serving thousands of Woodside users.- Designed and delivered complex integrations between multiple systems to bridge critical gaps during ServiceNow adoption, and to enhance the value of the platform for customer teams going forward.- Acted as the technical interface between customers and the ServiceNow team to determine business needs, prioritising and delivering these to the team so features could be delivered with confidence at speed.

Perth, Australia

Bachelor Of Science - B.S, Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S) - Communications & Media Studies / English & Cultural Studies

- Completed two years of three year degree. - Completed exchange program at the University of Western Ontario.