Alex John Bush
alex.john.bush@gmail.com
+64 20 4196 0194
Employment History
Professional Services, Qrious Limited (NZ)
From November 2022 to
now
Led delivery of many modern data platforms across a range of technologies and government and private sector clients. Involved with significant amount of pre-sales activities, from solution architecture design, to project scoping, costing and proposal writing. Managed a team of data consultants, from junior to senior consultants. Drove automation and repeatable infrastructure-as-code initiatives to bring innovation to project delivery, ensure platform implementation consistency and capture reusable assets.
Principal Consultant
Led the architecture design and platform delivery of Microsoft Fabric-based modern data platform for multiple large organisations.
Led the architecture design and platform delivery of Azure Databricks for analyst workloads in a large NZ government organisation.
Delivered multiple modern data platform implementations across Fivetran, Azure, Snowflake, Coalesce and DBT using Infrastructure-as-Code.
Digital Lighthouse, KPMG New Zealand (NZ)
From August 2019 to
November 2022
Led and delivered Data and Analytics projects for public and private sector clients.
Drove internal innovation to increase delivery capability and technical maturity.
Fostered a culture of learning and collaboration through mentoring.
Associate Director
From
April 2022
to
November 2022
Chapter Lead for Engineering.
Led business development and engagement delivery, and identified and delivered strategic investments in technology and mentoring to ensure delivery capability and capacity.
Managed relationships with senior client stakeholders to ensure effective delivery of complex engagements.
Senior Manager
From
April 2021
to
March 2022
Solution design and delivery of end-to-end analytics platforms for public-sector clients. Delivered zero-trust platform architectures of PaaS and IaaS infrastructure. Developed large-scale data processing pipelines in Apache Spark to support client data modelling.
Manager
From
August 2019
to
March 2021
Led client project delivery, from Azure Cloud architecture and infrastructure automation, to back-end application development and data reporting. Increased the technical maturity of the team, running workshops and designing best practices for delivery.
Cox Automotive (UK)
From November 2016 to
August 2019
Data Engineering team lead, supporting Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Science (DS) teams with data and platforms to enable effective business analytics.
Enabled principle of self-service analytics and ETL development for BI and DS teams (summarised in a talk given at the Spark Summit 2019 (youtu.be/1WUIua-xjJA)).
Lead Data Engineer
From
April 2018
to
August 2019
Delivered and supported data-driven platforms, pipelines, and products across BI and DS teams.
Performed zero-downtime platform migration from Cloudera (IaaS) to Azure Databricks (PaaS).
Was a core contributor to Waimak, an open-source Apache Spark library (github.com/CoxAutomotiveDataSolutions/waimak).
Hadoop DevOps Engineer
From
November 2016
to
March 2018
Automated deployment of Cloudera platform, and migrated platform onto a secure platform (Kerberos, SSL, RBAC).
Responsible for all automation of project and environment builds and deployment.
Hortonworks (UK)
From December 2015 to
November 2016
Professional services consultant providing Hadoop implementation, administration and developer services to banking-sector clients.
Senior Consultant
British Gas (UK)
From September 2013 to
November 2015
Developer and Platform Engineer delivering ETL pipeline development, and infrastructure and platform automation to support large on-premises Hadoop clusters.
Hadoop Platform Engineer
From
January 2015
to
November 2015
Graduate Hadoop Software Developer
From
May 2014
to
January 2015
Graduate SAP Developer
From
September 2013
to
May 2014
Education
MPhys, Masters in Computational Physics with Honors
University of Edinburgh
Masters Project:
Radiative Transfer on GPUs using NVIDIA CUDA
Senior Honors Project:
Lattice QCD on GPUs using NVIDIA CUDA
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
Valid from February 2022
to
February 2025
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft
Valid from January 2022
to
January 2025
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Valid from April 2020
to
April 2023
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Valid from May 2024
to
May 2025
Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Valid from September 2020
to
September 2023
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Microsoft
Valid from February 2022
to
February 2024
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft
Valid from January 2022
to
January 2025
SnowPro Core Certification
Snowflake
Valid from November 2023
to
November 2025
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
Valid from February 2022
to
February 2025
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Valid from April 2020
to
April 2023
Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Valid from September 2020
to
September 2023
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft
Valid from January 2022
to
January 2025
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft
Valid from January 2022
to
January 2025
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Valid from May 2024
to
May 2025
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Microsoft
Valid from February 2022
to
February 2024
SnowPro Core Certification
Snowflake
Valid from November 2023
to
November 2025
Technical Skills
Data Engineering
Apache Spark,
Databricks,
Snowflake,
Microsoft Fabric, and
SQL
Software Engineering
Scala,
Python,
C#,
TypeScript, and
Functional Programming
Cloud Engineering
Azure and
AWS
DevOps / Automation
Azure DevOps,
ARM / Bicep,
GitHub, and
Terraform
Infrastructure / Platform
Linux / Unix,
Bash, and
Networking
Soft Skills
Solution Architecture and Platform Design,
Agile Project Delivery,
Requirements Gathering,
Technical Writing, and
Workshop Facilitation
Data Engineering
Apache Spark,
Databricks,
Snowflake,
Microsoft Fabric, and
SQL
Cloud Engineering
Azure and
AWS
Infrastructure / Platform
Linux / Unix,
Bash, and
Networking
Software Engineering
Scala,
Python,
C#,
TypeScript, and
Functional Programming
DevOps / Automation
Azure DevOps,
ARM / Bicep,
GitHub, and
Terraform
Soft Skills
Solution Architecture and Platform Design,
Agile Project Delivery,
Requirements Gathering,
Technical Writing, and
Workshop Facilitation
Data Engineering
Apache Spark,
Databricks,
Snowflake,
Microsoft Fabric, and
SQL
Software Engineering
Scala,
Python,
C#,
TypeScript, and
Functional Programming
Cloud Engineering
Azure and
AWS
DevOps / Automation
Azure DevOps,
ARM / Bicep,
GitHub, and
Terraform
Infrastructure / Platform
Linux / Unix,
Bash, and
Networking
Soft Skills
Solution Architecture and Platform Design,
Agile Project Delivery,
Requirements Gathering,
Technical Writing, and
Workshop Facilitation