CLOUD & COMPUTE

With over two decades of dedicated experience in the field of Information Technology, Chris (Burko to all but the most distant of relatives) is a seasoned professional who has made significant contributions across diverse regions, including New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom. His expertise lies in successfully navigating the complexities of large-scale cloud migrations, spearheading integration projects, and seamlessly executing identity provider migrations. His specialised focus on large-scale cloud migrations showcases his ability to harness cutting-edge technologies and methodologies to drive organisational efficiency and competitiveness. His hands-on experience in overseeing integration projects has resulted in streamlined operations and enhanced collaboration within organisations. Outside of work, he finds joy in a variety of activities, including perfecting the art of BBQing, indulging in the occasional bout of amateur guitar playing and ensuring his kids' bikes are always in top-notch condition. A nature lover at heart, Burko digs the refreshing vibes of ocean dips and wraps it all up with a well-deserved beer to unwind.

Donovan brings the same level of patience and determination to delivering cloud solutions as he does to restoring cars. He has over 17 years of experience working in cloud environments with Microsoft technology in large enterprises, Government agencies and IT service environments. He is well-practised when it comes to planning, designing and implementing multi-tier COTS and bespoke software in on-premises, private cloud and public cloud environments. This experience includes working in traditional waterfall, agile and DevOps aligned teams. As both a leader and member of technical project teams, he has contributed to the design and execution of migrating systems to the Public cloud. Outside of work Donovan can be found in the garage disassembling and reassembling his “simple” car restoration project, watching a movie or gaming.

An experienced Technology advocate with over 20 years of experience in the technology sector. Nav's passion lies in automating time-consuming processes that make business processes inefficient. Using public and Hybrid Cloud, the modernisation and enhancement of legacy and traditional business processes can be vastly improved. Nav aims to use modern technologies to achieve this efficiency for all types of businesses in varous sectors such as Health, Local Government, Education and Finance and Agriculture. 

Simon has more than once considered changing his job title to "Chief Lemming Wrangler", since a large part of working in enterprise IT is preventing all the moving parts from trying to fling themselves off a cliff. Fortunately, Simon knows how to assemble all the builders, bashers, bombers, and blockers into just the right combination to keep things moving in a safe, secure, and performant direction. An expert in all things Azure, he'll sketch out a system design, find the bugs in your Bicep templates, and bring down the costs of your cloud resources all before the first of his many cups of tea. Plus there's his wealth of experience built up from a variety of roles across the Australian, Japanese, and New Zealand IT industries, from small shops to nationwide online retailers. When the lemmings are safely marshalled, Simon enjoys tooting the euphonium, playing bridge, snowboarding, terraforming the backyard, messing with vintage Mac computers, and trying to find time to get through the stack of unread books continually mocking him from his bookshelf.

With more than 20 years of IT experience, Glen has delivered technology outcomes across a diverse range of industries including government, utilities, financial services, health, manufacturing, and agriculture. He has held both in‑house and consulting roles, leading major migration, modernisation, and transformation initiatives for enterprise organisations. Glen’s broad exposure to varied environments has shaped a well‑rounded technical capability and a pragmatic, solution‑focused approach to delivering successful business outcomes.

Michael's journey into tech wasn't exactly conventional. After completing the Ministry of Social Development's Limited-Service Volunteers (LSV) program, he started his IT career on the service desk, which led him into an operations team, branched into AWS DevOps consulting, and then landed at Inde, where he's become the resident AWS and DevOps advocate. Over his career, Michael has worked on projects ranging from automating enterprise private cloud deployments to developing platforms used by engineers to provision cloud infrastructure on AWS. Regardless of the project, the story remains the same—he’s focused on making lives simpler through DevOps and automation. As a long-time AWS and DevOps practitioner, Michael shares his knowledge through local AWS events and online.

Zade's IT journey started during high school, experimenting with creating text based games in Java, and running game servers for his friends. From there, he worked as a support technician managing endpoints, Microsoft Office, and specialised practice management software. He has worked across helpdesk, application testing and E-Waste roles before launching into a full time role as a Systems Engineer specialising in Red Hat Linux infrastructure on-premise. Enjoying a mix of development and infrastructure, Zade pivoted to work with advanced systems such as Kubernetes, implementing DevOps practices, automating PKI, and more. Today Zade enjoys helping customers with his tell-tale humour, developing innovative solutions including writing code for Cloudflare Workers, creating cloud infrastructure, diving deep into APIs, scripting to solve complex problems across disparate and varied systems, services and infrastructure, and identity and access management solutions for business and customers.