Summary
Duncan Kirkland is a Senior Automation Engineer with nine years' experience building and operating IT services across enterprise environments in Queensland, Australia. He leads automation, identity governance, and device lifecycle solutions for ~2.5k users and 3.6k devices, and serves as a subject-matter expert in SCCM, SCOM, PowerShell and Microsoft 365. His background in data science informs pragmatic, data-driven automation — including a novel system for automatically manufacturing “Golden Images” and end-to-end user lifecycle pipelines. Comfortable from hands-on tier 1/2 support through to Azure and on-prem infrastructure design, he bridges day-to-day operations with strategic platform projects like Windows 10→11 migrations and MFA adoption. Colleagues rely on him for dependable delivery, tooling that reduces manual toil, and clear governance across cloud and on-prem stacks.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Computer Science, Data Science and AI, 6.75 GPA, Bachelor of Computer Science, Data Science and AI, 6.75 GPA at Griffith University
Italian