Summary
David Ensikat is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Melbourne with over six years of focused experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, containerized microservices, and automated deployment pipelines. He combines hands-on development in Go and Python with deep AWS expertise—ECS/Fargate, Lambda, CloudFormation/Terraform, VPC and security tooling—to deliver PCI-compliant, highly available systems. His background in large-scale desktop and endpoint management (over 8,000 units) and extensive scripting (PowerShell/VBScript) gives him a practical edge in automation, incident and change management across mixed Windows, Linux and mobile fleets. At Shine Solutions Group he has owned platform reliability, monitoring and CI/CD tooling while assisting developers to ship APIs and serverless apps. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science and maintains a public code portfolio, reflecting a steady shift from systems engineering to cloud-native software delivery.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of New England (AU)
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Murdoch University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Edith Cowan University