Anika

Platform Engineer
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About

I'm a Platform Engineer at Amazon Web Services in Melbourne, passionate about automating cloud infrastructure, optimising CI/CD pipelines, and building the internal platforms that make engineering teams more productive.

Previously at National Australia Bank, where I spent four years scaling data platforms, decoupling infrastructure, and standardising operational processes.

BSc in Computing and Software Systems from the University of Melbourne, with a semester exchange at University College Dublin. Former President of MUIC — organising events for 1,500+ attendees.

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Experience

Systems Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services
August 2025 – Present · Melbourne, VIC

Led discovery and implementation of an event-driven workflow automation platform for EC2, reducing on-call toil across multiple AWS regions. Built full-stack integration: SNS ingestion, Python workflow engine, CDK infrastructure, and CI/CD pipeline. Drove alarm re-evaluation designing 30+ CloudWatch alarms.

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Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer

National Australia Bank
March 2021 – July 2025 · Melbourne, VIC

Configured autoscaling for Apache Superset using Terraform and AWS ASGs. Decoupled shared Terraform modules across 4 repositories. Reduced cloud spend by implementing idle notebook culling on JupyterHub. Standardised capacity management and operational risk processes.

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Projects

Workflow Automation Platform

Event-driven system automating repetitive ticket processing across AWS regions. SNS-based event ingestion, YAML-driven trigger configurations, Python workflow engine, CDK infrastructure.

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Permission Inheritance Analyser

Python tool to programmatically extract, analyse, and visualise permission inheritance trees — reduced security remediation scope from 1,038 pages to ~90 through inheritance analysis.

PythonSecurityData Viz
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Contact

Always happy to talk about platform engineering, plants, or both.