Feb 2023 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr

• I work across the APAC region with many of our top customers in areas such as: designing resilient Kappa Architectures, Payments, distributed system best practices and on the growing influence of Large Language models and their role in creating knowledge-driven systems.

Jul 2019 – Feb 2023 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• In ANZ I'm leading the team of Solution Engineers that are helping to shape the modern view of systems — introducing new ways of thinking and new patterns of Internet scale systems.
• With Confluent, I'm a key technical advisor to the ANZ region, working closely with product management and engineering teams, and serving as a vital product advocate in front of prospects, customers, and the wider Kafka, streaming data and Fast Data communities.

May 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Every byte of data has a story to tell, something of significance that will inform the next thing to be done. In a data-driven enterprise, how we reason about and move our data becomes nearly as important as the data itself. With greater speed and agility, data’s value increases exponentially.
• In APAC, I'm helping to shape the modern view of systems, introducing new ways of thinking, new patterns of Internet scale systems.
• With Confluent, I'll be a key technical advisor to the team, working closely with the product management and engineering teams, and serving as a vital product advocate in front of prospects, customers, and the wider Kafka, streaming data and Big Data communities.

Jan 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• As Team Lead, I interact with customers and partners in all verticals, from higher-ed to large enterprises across industries and with local, state and federal government — communicating the value of the cloud, Drupal and Acquia. I research, scope, estimate and present cloud-based enterprise solutions to get the strategic win within the C-level. Additionally, I build relationships between the APJ sales team and our engineering and product teams located in North America, bringing feedback from APJ customers into the development of new products and processes. Working with sales management, I help develop and refine country-by-country specific strategies to better position Acquia’s cloud services to potential customers and partners.
• Responsibilities:
• Working with some of JAPAC’s largest enterprise customers by leading pre-sales engagements, supporting senior sales colleagues, and creating repeatable, actionable strategies
• Extensive experience running discovery workshops, whiteboarding sessions, engaging all stakeholders at C-level, understanding challenges and business needs all whilst having an eye on next best steps
• Developing customised presentations, demonstrations, and cloud prototypes (PaaS, SaaS, PHP, JavaScript, REST) to prove a solution's business value to C-level executives
• Cloud Security SME in region (WAF, DDoS, Firewall, VPC, IRAP)
• Guiding and mentoring the Solutions Architecture team as a "player-coach"
• Speaking at conferences and thought leadership event across JAPAC
• Leading expansion of Acquia into Japan, Singapore, and the wider ASEAN region by defining go-to-market strategies with the Channel team and enablement for JAPAC partners, creating competitive intel

Oct 2012 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• First SA on the ground in APJ, tasked with creating Acquia's presence in region
• Expert in all things cloud and on Acquia's PaaS technology stack
• Search and hire, training up the Solutions Architect team
• Running Architecture Workshops and Professional Service engagements
• Conducting partner training / education / certification

Sep 2009 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Sydney, Australia

• David is one of Australia's most prominent Drupal developers through his work on projects for the ABC's Digital Radio and Hungry Beast and is a leading expert on RDFa (Semantic Web) development. He's led major projects at PreviousNext for Vividwireless, Servcorp and the State Library of Victoria.

Jun 2009 – Dec 2009 · 6 mos

• Working with Televion/New Media division to create the Hungry Beast web site (built with Drupal).
• Launched at the end of Sep, 09.

Dec 2008 – May 2009 · 5 mos

• http://abcdigmusic.net.au
• Worked with the digital radio group to create a live platform for "what's on" in digital radio. This site was built from the ground up in Drupal and utilises many cutting-edge technologies. This was necessary for it to scale and to pull in data from across the Web to create a social graph of each and every artist that has been on air. Semantic Web technology in particular is used to great effect along with a SOLR search engine that allows content to be assembled from across the entire Web system.

Nov 2008 – Oct 2012 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Sunshine Coast, QLD Australia

• Consultation and development of high end Drupal websites. I have worked for a number of Australian CRC organisations, the ABC, along with many private companies.

Nov 2007 – Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Melbourne, Australia

• I write articles on Drupal & the Semantic Web.
• http://www.sitepoint.com/author/david-peterson/

Aug 2005 – Dec 2008 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Townsville, Australia

• In late 2006 I headed the effort to transition BoaB from our proprietary .Net CMS to Drupal, an open source system.
• In addition to this I am leading the charge to implement Semantic Web technologies into all aspects of our products.
• Member of W3C.

May 2000 – Aug 2005 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Townsville, Australia

• Creation and management of large scale Content Management System.
• Developed in .Net
• Early adopter of .Net, working closely with global .Net team
• First go-live .Net license within Australia (by Microsoft)
• This was developed for science and government agencies to help manage and publish large volumes of information.

Apr 2000 – Jul 2002 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Townsville, Australia

• Filmed underwater and above-water sequences with credits in 2 international wildlife films
• Assisted on set design & setup.
• Assisted on on-location shoots

Sep 1996 – Oct 1999 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Created the visual design and structure of web sites.
• Introduced new multimedia tools to the company, pushing the bounds of what was then possible. Early adopters of Future Splash which was to become Flash. Produced interactive content with MM Director.