About Andy

Originally an itinerant teacher of programming at university, Andy has been writing code professionally since 1996 in Melbourne, Brisbane, San Francisco, Leeds and Singapore...and occasionally in his sleep.
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With 20+ years of technology consulting experience, Andy is now the Head of Technology for the Melbourne-based fintech - Moula. Andy has deep experience in agile development and has, since 2013, become one of those dreary functional programming evangelists you dread speaking to at parties. Andy is a regular speaker at conferences in Australia and user groups in Melbourne, even though he does not understand monads… not even a little bit.

Microservices: Perfume when scaling up, sewage when scaling down

Melbourne & Sydney

Programming Languages, Cloud & Tools

We are swimming in advice for scaling up technology while organisations are growing, but what happens when a company's growth is heading in the other direction? This talk is my experience leading the technology group in a company that has ramped down considerably in size over the last 2 years. How do you operate a technical ecosystem built when you were 6x the size?