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Perth, Western Australia

Cloud-native systems
for complex data.

I’m Keegan Ott, a Perth data platform engineer. I build reliable Azure, SQL and event-driven platforms—from Azure-first products to air-gap-capable Kubernetes deployments.

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Keegan Ott

Current focus

  • 01 AI-enabled intelligence platforms
  • 02 Event-driven cloud systems
  • 03 Data engineering & integration
  • 04 Self-hosted, resilient delivery

Turning difficult operational problems into calm, observable software—with data, security, and the realities of production built in from the start.

Selected work

Built for the real world.

Recent work at Akkodis spans intelligent analysis, sovereign deployment, and nationally significant data platforms.

01

Law-enforcement intelligence analysis

AI that helps analysts find the signal.

Developed and maintained a .NET 10 REST API, event-driven Azure Functions workers, and Angular 20 web app for an intelligence-analysis platform.

Semantic searchRAG chatbotFacial searchDocument translation

Platform Cosmos DB · Azure AI Search · Azure OpenAI · Service Bus · Durable Functions · SignalR · Redis

02

Sovereign / disconnected delivery

Cloud patterns, re-engineered for air-gapped environments.

Engineered a self-hosted edition by re-hosting Azure Functions workloads as containerised .NET services on Kubernetes, preserving the event-driven architecture while removing cloud dependencies.

KubernetesKEDA scale-to-zeroWolverineRabbitMQSQL Server

Engineering Ported durable orchestrations to SQL Server through a maintained fork of Microsoft’s durabletask-mssql provider.

03

TGA Australian Unique Device Identification

Reliable backend foundations for a national platform.

Developed and maintained .NET 8 APIs and Azure Functions, with Cosmos DB, Redis, Azure Storage, App Configuration, Key Vault, Azure AD B2C, Application Insights, and Swagger forming the operational backbone.

Capabilities

A systems view, end to end.

01

Data platforms

Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, SQL Server / T-SQL, ELT pipelines, data parsing, validation, and operational data stores.

02

Cloud & platform engineering

Microsoft Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, ARM, Bicep, Azure CLI, observability, configuration, and secrets management.

03

Integration & eventing

REST APIs, Azure Service Bus, Apache Kafka, Debezium, RabbitMQ, SAP NetWeaver PI/PO, SAP ECC, and change-data capture.

04

Product development

.NET, C#, TypeScript, Angular, React, Node.js, Java, Python, Azure Functions, SQL Server, and practical user-facing software.

Career

Experience with the full context.

  1. 2021 — nowPerth, WA

    Data Engineer

    Akkodis formerly Modis Consulting

    Independent delivery across client engagements and internal product development: intelligent cloud applications, data warehouses and ELT pipelines, custom validation workflows, React interfaces, high-throughput Azure SQL, and multi-project CI pipelines.

  2. 2016 — 2021Perth, WA

    Integration Analyst

    Roy Hill Iron Ore

    Designed, built, and supported REST APIs for mobile applications; delivered real-time change-data capture using Java, Kafka, Debezium, and MySQL; and led business-system integration across operational and SAP platforms.

  3. 2016Perth, WA

    Full Stack Developer

    Keepspace

    Built customer onboarding content and a React single-page experience for visualising stored items, alongside marketing and UX guidance.

  4. 2014Perth, WA

    Undergraduate Researcher

    Curtin University

    Researched computer-vision methods for mapping gaze to on-screen positions and developed a real-time stimulus delivery and facial-recording system with open-source computer-vision tooling and C++.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering

Curtin University

2012 — 2015 · Final projects and research interests in machine vision, machine learning, and data analysis.