AboutAuckland → London → Melbourne

I'm John Pham — a DevOps and platform engineer with 8+ years delivering enterprise software for millions of users, and an advocate for cultivating a strong DevOps mindset, practices, and tools that ship real value.

Today I'm a Senior Platform Engineer at Storable. Most recently I co-founded My Private Ledger, a B2B fintech SaaS I scaled to 100+ agencies. Before that, as Lead DevOps Engineer at MasterCard, I kept the UK's #1 real-time scam defence — Consumer Fraud Risk — running for 11 of Britain's biggest banks, catching fraud before the money's gone. NZ citizen, with full work rights in Australia and New Zealand.

By the numbers
The UK's #1

Real-time scam defence: Consumer Fraud Risk, the first-of-its-kind AI I ran at MasterCard for 11 of Britain's biggest banks — millions of payments scored a day, on rails that move ~£10tn a year.

30M+ users

Served monthly on the 99.99%-SLA loyalty platform I built at Plexure.

100+ agencies

On My Private Ledger, the B2B fintech SaaS I co-founded and architected from zero.

>$250K/yr

Annual AWS spend cut (25%) via a cross-account optimization strategy at Storable.

Career at a glancefull timeline →

What I work with
cloudAzure · AWS
iacTerraform · ARM/Bicep
containersKubernetes · Docker · Helm
cicdAzure DevOps · Jenkins · GitLab CI
observNew Relic · Grafana · ELK · PagerDuty · Site24x7 · Bugsnag
langsC# · Go · Python · TypeScript · Bash · PowerShell
securityCloudflare · Snyk · CrowdStrike · SonarQube · Prisma Cloud
gitopsArgoCD · GitLab
dataFivetran · Coalesce · Snowflake
Education

B.E. (Hons), Software Engineering — University of Auckland · 2014–2017

Certifications
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
Volunteering
  • CodeClubteach programming to high-school students
  • Youthlinehelpline counsellor & mentor for trainee counsellors
  • MKP NZsupporting men across NZ to live fuller lives
Let's connect

Building something? Let's talk.

I'm open to conversations about technical leadership, platform engineering, or building impactful products — whether you need a technical co-founder, an engineering leader, or just want to trade notes on DevOps and AI.