· CONTACT
ashleymckinn@gmail.com Email →
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001 PROFILE
ASHLEY McKINNON
Eight years in commercial kitchens taught me systems thinking under pressure. I brought that into cloud engineering and haven't looked back. Now I build the infrastructure and identity pipelines that keep federal platforms running.
Azure Entra ID PowerShell IaC CI/CD DevOps
Current Role
Azure Cloud Engineer
ABS · Melbourne
Academia
Ba. IT · RMIT · Final Year
4.0
GPA
Finishing Nov. 2026
002 STACK
Cloud Platform
AZURE
CLOUD
Core platform. Deploy and manage Azure infrastructure across a federal multi-tenant environment: Function Apps, Storage, Networking, and cloud-native services.
Function Apps Storage Networking Azure Portal Subscriptions Resource Groups
Identity & Governance
ENTRA
ID
Entra ID PIM / JIT RBAC CAPs App Registrations
CI/CD & Automation
AZURE
DEVOPS
Azure DevOps Pipelines ServiceNow Jira
Infrastructure as Code
BICEP
/ ARM
Bicep ARM Terraform
Scripting & Pipelines
POWER
SHELL
PowerShell Python Bash Graph API
Tooling ServiceNow Jira ADO Wiki Git VS Code
003 PROJECT · FROGFINDER
FROG
FINDER
MFCC
Platform-agnostic application for automated classification of Australian frog species from audio recordings. Inference runs on-device, built to assist researchers track frog populations.

Classifying frog calls currently requires a domain expert to review every recording. FrogFinder eliminates that bottleneck. MFCC feature extraction maps audio signals into a 2D coefficient heatmap, feeding a lightweight on-device ML model.
Role Tech Lead · Scrum Master
Accuracy 95.2%
→ View on GitHub
STACKON-DEVICE
Expo NativeWind Meyda Supabase PostgreSQL Python/Sklearn React Native PyTorch Librosa
MFCC · POBBLEBONK 13 COEFF × 60 FRAMES
0ms← Time →~2000ms
Low
High
004 ACADEMIA · RMIT
RMIT University
BAch.
INFOrmation
TECHnology
Final Year · Melbourne, VIC
Electives in Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, and Algorithms & Analysis. Capstone project lead on bioacoustic frog species classification using on-device ML.
Ba. Information Technology 2022 – 2026
Academic Performance
4.0/4.0
Dean's List · Top 3%
Awards & Recognition
STEM School Dean's List 2025 Top 3%
RMIT Student Award – Finalist 2025
Student Representative 2025
Capstone · Project Lead Bioacoustics
Coursework
Cloud Computing AWS · EC2 · Networking · IaC · CloudFormation
Cloud Security Adv. Cryptography · ACLs · Security Groups
Software Development Java · Python · OOP · Algorithms · Data Structures
Networking Cisco · Packet Tracer · Virtualisation
Cybersecurity & SysAdmin Unix · Bash Scripting · Active Directory
Web Dev & Databases SQL · HTML · CSS · JS
Software Engineering Scrum · Agile · UML · Architecture
UX Design Figma · Use Case Diagrams · Accessibility
005 WORK · ABS
Azure
CLOUD
ENGINEER
Australian Bureau of Statistics · Nov 2024 – Present · Melbourne, VIC
Build and maintain production CI/CD pipelines across Azure and Entra ID in a high-governance federal environment. Multiple pipelines delivered end-to-end: from architecture and requirements through to production deployment.
Infrastructure · Performance
Function App
Pipeline
Complete refactor of the Function App deployment pipeline. Took runtime from ~35 minutes to under 3 minutes through architectural redesign in a production, high-governance federal environment.
~92% faster
01
Infrastructure · Tech-debt
Enterprise Landing Zone
Pipeline
Major overhaul of the Bicep-based Enterprise Landing Zone pipeline. Reduced accumulated tech-debt, improved end-user experience and maintainability across multi-tenant cloud environments.
Bicep · IaC
02
Identity · State-managed
Azure RBAC
Pipeline
Research → design → architecture → deployment → integration testing → CI validation. State-managed, data-driven RBAC pipeline. Rollback on failure, full accountability and visibility across environments.
Production deployed
03
Identity · Zero Trust
Conditional Access
Policy Pipeline
Design, deployment and management of Conditional Access Policies as pipeline-managed infrastructure. Versioned policy lifecycle with rollback capability: enforcing a consistent zero-trust posture across a federal multi-environment platform.
CAPs Zero Trust Entra ID
04
Identity · Just-In-Time
PIM / JIT
Access Pipeline
Pipeline-managed Privileged Identity Management with Just-In-Time access controls. Enforces least-privilege, time-bound role assignments and approval workflows across all privileged roles in a federal environment.
PIM JIT Entra ID
05
Identity · Governance
Entra Roles
Pipeline
Automated, state-managed pipeline for Entra ID role lifecycle management: provisioning, de-provisioning and auditing of directory roles and assignments across multi-environment platforms.
Entra ID RBAC Governance
06
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCECAREER
Ski Tech Rocky Valley · Tawonga, VIC Jun – Sep 2024
Senior Baker Bakers Delight · Wheeler's Hill, VIC Oct 2020 – Jun 2024
Bakery Manager Mid Perisher Centre · Perisher, NSW 2020 & 2022 Seasons
Baker Bakers Delight · Frankston/Langwarrin, VIC May 2017 – Jun 2020
006 OUTSIDE WORK
Climbing
LEAD
CLIMBING
Indoor
Urban Climb
Grade 23
Outdoor
Boogie Till You Puke
Camel's Hump
Grade 21
Certs
Top Rope Anchor
Outdoor Lead Course
First Aid & CPR
Sport Lead Bouldering
Snowboarding
ALPINE
Mountains
Perisher · Hotham
Terrain
Double Blacks
Off-Piste
Splitboard Freeride
Recent Reads
K2: Triumph and Tragedy
Jim Curran
In Progress →
Life Unfolding
Jamie A. Davies
Digital Literacy
Paul Gilster
Gut
Giulia Ender
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