Hi, I’m Jia Liao (Gary). I’m a Melbourne-based Australian IT professional with 5+ years of experience designing and implementing end-to-end data solutions, including data infrastructure, data modeling, data governance frameworks, and data quality monitoring. I also bring a solid DevOps and cloud infrastructure background, with hands-on experience managing CI/CD pipelines and provisioning scalable environments using AWS and Terraform.

Jia Liao (Gary)

Hi, I’m Jia Liao (Gary). I’m a Melbourne-based Australian IT professional with 5+ years of experience designing and implementing end-to-end data solutions, including data infrastructure, data modeling, data governance frameworks, and data quality monitoring. I also bring a solid DevOps and cloud infrastructure background, with hands-on experience managing CI/CD pipelines and provisioning scalable environments using AWS and Terraform.

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Hi, I’m Jia Liao (Gary). I’m a Melbourne-based Australian IT professional with 5+ years of experience designing and implementing end-to-end data solutions, including data infrastructure, data modeling, data governance frameworks, and data quality monitoring.

I also bring a solid DevOps and cloud infrastructure background, with hands-on experience managing CI/CD pipelines and provisioning scalable environments using AWS and Terraform.

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Experience Level

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Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
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Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

DevOps Cloud Engineer at Prezzee
January 1, 2025 - Present
Deployed and maintained the company’s AWS applications/resources using Terraform, emphasizing networking, IAM policies, CDN configuration (CloudFront), and DNS management (Route 53). Implemented ABAC in access controls, security hardening for PCI DSS, and automated delivery with Spacelift; integrated Datadog with CloudWatch for real-time monitoring and compliance logging.
Data Engineer at Wesfarmers OneDigital
June 1, 2022 - December 1, 2024
Sited in a cross-functional data platform team and worked in a data mesh model to enable self-service data. Integrated data from operational and marketing systems into the data lake, modeled membership data products across brands, supported strategic and ad-hoc data requests, and maintained CI/CD pipelines with governance and monitoring.
DevOps Engineer (Freelance) at Dainty Logistics
July 1, 2023 - July 1, 2024
Led architecture and implementation of a commercial logistics management system from scratch using native AWS services. Designed secure 3-tier networks, automated CI/CD pipelines, and deployed with IAM, VPC, Route53, S3, ALB, and ECS. Collaborated with engineering and product teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
Data Engineer at Domain
December 1, 2021 - June 1, 2022
Focused on transformation and usage of customer interaction data for customer segmentation. Built ETL pipelines using dbt, Snowflake, Python, SQL, and Airflow; supported data requests from business stakeholders.
Data Engineer at Luxury Escapes
March 1, 2020 - November 1, 2021
Leveraged data engineering skills to support reporting and analytics; built ETL pipelines with dbt, Python, SQL, and Airflow; maintained PostgreSQL reporting service; designed dashboards and data governance.
Reporting Analyst at Innovation Group
March 1, 2019 - March 1, 2020
Led the project to establish a curated data source and data warehouse for reporting; built ETL pipelines with SSIS, Python, and Azure Data Factory; designed interactive Tableau dashboards; monitored and summarized financial KPIs.

Education

Master of Data Science at University of Melbourne
February 1, 2017 - November 1, 2018
Bachelor of Science at University of Western Australia
February 1, 2014 - November 1, 2016

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Transportation & Logistics, Professional Services, Other

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
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Intermediate