Andre Sara — Technology Leader

DXC Technology • Frankfurt, Germany

Serve as the executive technical authority for strategic European enterprise accounts across regulated industries, aligning C-suite business objectives with multi-cloud and agentic AI architectures.

• First point of call for enterprise C-level executives, balancing needs with a reality check as a trusted advisor.
• Craft cohesive strategies, assemble expert teams, and collaborate to deliver demonstrated, metric-validated solutions.
• Steer pre-sales architectures, partner funding, and cloud roadmaps contributing to €600+ mil p.a.

KVRAI • USA (Remote)

Advise executive leadership on product architecture and agentic AI platform strategy for a US-based real estate platform.

• Directed the architectural transition from Azure to Google Cloud via Google for Startups, reducing infrastructure OPEX.
• Architected generative video capabilities and autonomous agent workflows to scale operations seamlessly.

DXC Technology • Sydney, Australia

I led the Platform Engineering practice across Asia-Pacific with direct management of 30 staff, combining enterprise architectural governance, pre-sales advisory, and strategic cloud consulting for tier-one regulated accounts.

• Workforce Transformation: Spearheaded the DXC One Cloud Guild across APAC, upskilling 10,000+ staff across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, cementing the title of DXC Distinguished Technologist.
• Capital & Asset Optimisation: Unlocked $30M in annual run-rate savings by architecting hybrid strategies that maximised on-premises asset utility whilst accelerating consumption-based cloud adoption.
• Regulated Banking Platforms: Directed cloud advisory engagements for Tier-1 multinational and investment banks, designing mission-critical architectures compliant with APRA CPS 234.
• Identity & Enterprise Consolidation: Led enterprise architecture assessment across 14 Active Directory domains in five countries for 26,000 users via Azure AD for a major engineering services enterprise.
• Public Sector Modernisation: Defined mobile platform architecture for a major public water utility serving field operations and 5M end-customers with zero-trust Auth0 patterns.
• Critical Infrastructure Resilience: Directed post-incident recovery for an energy distribution network across 3,000 field devices around Human-Centred Design (HCD) principles.
• Central Bank Compliance: Evaluated identity infrastructure for a national central bank, delivering target-state architectures under federal security benchmarks.

University of Technology Sydney (UTS) • Sydney, Australia

I lectured postgraduate students on Agile and Waterfall software delivery methodologies, focusing on translating theoretical frameworks into the pragmatic realities of large-scale enterprise engineering.

• Curriculum Delivery: Instructed postgraduate cohorts on software delivery lifecycles, contrasting Agile delivery against Waterfall governance across complex organisational structures.
• Industry Translation: Bridged academic frameworks with real-world enterprise constraints, equipping future engineering leaders to navigate technical debt, team topologies, and stakeholder alignment.

Travelport (Galileo) • Sydney, Australia

I led product engineering architecture and pre-sales solutions for Travelport’s high-volume global travel commerce platform, steering core technical designs and commercial software negotiations across the Asia-Pacific region.

• High-Scale Transactional Platforms: Architected the core ticketing engine processing $2B in annual transactional volume, ensuring 99.999% availability and low latency via enterprise SQL Server.
• Commercial Vendor Negotiation (SAP): Renegotiated strategic OEM redistribution agreements with SAP, securing long-term pricing reductions whilst unlocking premium software tiers.
• Security & Regulatory Compliance: Governed PCI-DSS compliance across five APAC data centres for eight years, deploying automated OWASP vulnerability scanning and continuous penetration testing.
• Distributed Operations & Mid-Office Automation: Designed zero-touch rollout mechanism across 1,000+ agency endpoints, removing operational blind spots.
• Operational Analytics: Deployed real-time Power BI telemetry to measure robotic process automation metrics, establishing data-driven feedback loops for executive decision-making.

Travelport (Galileo) • Sydney, Australia

I led systems engineering and core infrastructure modernisation across the Asia-Pacific region, driving critical data centre migrations, DevOps automation, and private cloud virtualisation.

• Data Centre Migration: Planned and delivered a cross-continental migration from Hong Kong to Atlanta, directing network architecture, disaster recovery, and executive stakeholder alignment.
• DevOps Leadership: Directed 20 onshore and offshore engineers, implementing centralised PowerShell orchestration to automate deployment pipelines and cut manual toil.
• Development Infrastructure: Consolidated fragmented development environments into a self-service Cisco UCS private cloud, enabling on-demand provisioning and shortening regression cycles.

NCSi Holdings Pte Ltd • Sydney, Australia

I managed incident operations and change approvals for enterprise corporate service desks, supporting 11,000 employees.

• Operations Management: Supervised daily service desk operations and support delivery across Australia.
• Incident Handling: Worked rotating 12-hour shifts managing regular incidents to P1 major tickets.
• Change Control: Reviewed production risk assessments and approved changes to prevent outages.

Datacom • Sydney, Australia

I led a team of 30 technical support engineers, managing technical escalations and team performance.

• Team Leadership: Managed 30 Microsoft support engineers, handling complex technical escalations and coaching the team on troubleshooting and customer service.
• Career Growth: Earned consistent promotions from Level 1 helpdesk through to Level 2 Platforms & Workplace Engineer, and into the Team Lead role.