TOM HOUSTON
(pronounced "Howston" not "Hughston")
Senior Systems Engineer • Starting 12 Jan 2026
Prepared for
50+ Enterprise Projects (5% internal/escalations/service desk)
95%
90% increase in Onboarding Efficiency
90%
9+ Years Professional IT
100%
Key Projects
QLD Digital Licence — K8s for 5M+ users
🚜
Hitachi Mining — DevOps & AKS
🚚
National Rental — 300+ MDM fleet
🏫
Private School — 1-2k laptop rollout
Philosophy
"Systems should work so you don't have to."
BInfTech CompSci
Netier Intro 2026
Netier Intro 2026
cat career_journey.log
Career Journey
Project Delivery Lead / Azure Modern Workplace Senior Tech Consultant
Mangano IT
2024 - Present
L1-L3 Support → Cloud Ops Engineer → Pre-Sales/Solutions Architect
Aliva
2021 - 2024 {completing BInfTech @ QUT}
IT Support Officer
Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
2019 - 2021 {studying BInfTech @ QUT}
🌙 The Dark Times™
Everyone starts somewhere (2016-2019)
Domino's
Delivery Driver
IGA X-Press
Senior/Supervisor
McDonald's
Crew / Barista
Technical Crew
Grace Lutheran College
2014 - 2016
RBWH
IT Work Experience
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital
2014
IT Trainee
Lightmare Studios
2013 - 2014
grep -r "achievements" ./career/
Key Achievements
QLD Digital Driver's Licence2-person team built K8s backend for 5M+ Queenslanders. Zero breaches. IRAP-assessed AWS.
🚜 Hitachi Autonomous Mining
DevOps platform & AKS for driverless mining vehicles. CI/CD pipelines for remote sites.
🚚 National Rental Equipment Co
Total MDM implementation for 300+ device fleet. Truck iPads, company phones, enterprise rollout.
🏫 Large Private School
Total Intune config & automation. 1-2k laptop rollout. Full cloud onboarding enablement.
⚡ Zero-Touch Provisioning
Device onboarding: 4 hours → 5-15 min (90%+ improvement). Autopilot + ImmyBot.
💰 First Paycheck from Google
AdSense at 12 years old. The hustle started early.
no I'm not showing you the videos
cat ~/fun_facts.json
Q&A / Fun Facts
📍 Origins
Born in Brisbane, raised in Caboolture & Wallumbilla (Roma) 🤠
Yes I'm from Caboolture - no, you don't need to hide your silverware 😅
Nickname: Just Tom + "Houston, we have a problem" 🚀
Most Used Emoji: 💀
🎭 2 Truths & a Lie
1. I can speak Indonesian 🇮🇩
2. No bones broken in bike crash 🏍️💀
3. First paycheck from Google at 12 💰
🛣️ Houston, We Have a Road 🤠
Wallumbilla, QLD
Family's been here for generations (hundreds of years) - hence the road name. Yeehaw. 🤠
🎓 Education & Certifications (20+)
🎓
BInfTech
CompSci QUT
Microsoft
10 Certs
🏢
Vendor
6 Certs
📜
Vocational
Cert II/III IT
AZ-104
AZ-900
MS-900
SC-900
MD-102
PL-900
AI-900
DP-900
MS-700
MS-102
Fortinet NSE3
Acronis
Rubrik
Cisco
ConnectWise
Datto
🤯 What Blows My Mind
📧 Orgs without email security (SPF/DKIM/DMARC via DNS is FREE!)
🔥 No DNS monitoring/rollback = "intern at Cloudflare"-tier outages
☸️ When K8s & distributed computing works... it's poetry
🏍️ The Motorcycle Incident™ (Bike #3)
T-boned at 60km/h → flew over car → landed on feet
🏍️
RIP Bike #3
💥
60km/h
🤸
Evil Knievel
✅
No Bones Broken!
Walked into ambulance • Corrected paramedic's GCS
✅ Disclosed during physical — good as gold these days :^)
cat ~/would_you_rather.yml
Would You Rather
🌊 Oceans or Mountains?
🧗 Mountains (primal urge to stand on rocks)
🗣️ Languages or Animals?
🐕🦺 Animals (tell my old lab she's loved)
📷 Click to add image
🎬 Yoda or Vader?
🟢 Yoda (us IT fellas already sound like Vader)
📷 Click to add image
🧠 Telekinesis or Telepathy?
🔮 Telepathy (resolve before they ask)
📷 Click to add image
🐕 The one I need to talk to
Sandy
14yo Labrador, still giving advice
🐸 Favourite Animal
African Rain Frog
The angriest potato 🔊
Most Used Emoji
💀
Nickname
Just Tom
"Houston, we have a solution" 🚀
Coffee Order
☕ Long Black
Qualified Barista™
npm list --depth=0
Technical Stack
Azure
M365
Kubernetes
Docker
PowerShell
C#
Intune
Linux
Terraform
CI/CD
Proxmox
ESXi
PostgreSQL
Fortinet
🎓
BInfTech
Computer Science • QUT
10
Microsoft Certified
Click to view →
🏢
6
Vendor Certs
Click to view →
☕
5
Life Skills™
Click to view →
Life Skills™:
☕ Qualified Barista
⬜ White Card
🔵 Blue Card (QLD)
🍺 RSA
🎰 RSGR
gh repo list --limit 5
GitHub Projects
🎵 Spotify Genre Sorter
Cloudflare Workers app that automatically organizes liked songs into genre-based playlists. TypeScript + Hono.
⚡ PowerApps CICD Template
Reusable GitHub Actions workflows for Power Platform ALM. Automated deployments, solution management.
📊 Argus (Analytics)
Personal analytics dashboard. Tracks everything from finance to fitness with beautiful visualizations.
🏛️ Arete (Excellence)
Excellence tracking system. Named after the Greek concept of virtue/excellence.
⏱️ Kairos
Unified usage monitoring platform with local Grafana + cloud dashboard + alerts.
🔐 M365 CA Baseline
PowerShell script for Microsoft 365 Conditional Access security baseline configuration.
30+ Repositories
Personal projects & experiments
cat ~/hobbies.yml
What I Do For Fun
🏍️
Going for a brap on the bike
Freedom on two wheels - currently on bike #3 after... the incident
🤖
Automating everything
Eliminating inefficiencies so I can enjoy life away from a screen. Inefficiencies hurt my OCD.
🌐
Buying domains I'll definitely use
Have collected more domains than I can count - and still buying. Send help.
🖥️
Tinkering with the homelab
Proxmox clusters, Kubernetes, self-hosted everything. The lab is never finished.
Off the clock
"Work hard, automate harder, then go touch grass."
Superpowers I Wish I Had
Telepathy — Resolve issues before they even ask. Proactive support to the extreme. 🧠✨
echo $LOOKING_FORWARD
What's On The Horizon
Genuinely excited about what we'll build together. I love transforming complex problems into elegant solutions - and I'm ready to bring that energy to Netier.
"I actually respond"
Personal support, real solutions. That's my differentiator - and I can't wait to prove it.
Ready to ship_