Peter Hanssens
AI Engineering at Cloud Shuttle & Founder of DataEngBytes
Sydney, Australia
About
As the Founder and Principal Consultant at Cloud Shuttle, I have spent over five years delivering tailored consulting services in data engineering, solution architecture, and cloud technologies. My work focuses on empowering clients to unlock the full potential of their data by creating scalable, secure, and efficient solutions. In addition to consulting, I am the Founder of DataEngBytes, a conference dedicated to fostering a thriving data engineering community across Australia and New Zealand.
Experience
Apr 2020 - Present · 6 yrs
Founder, Principal Consultant
Cloud Shuttle
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- •Release Management and Engineering Leadership
- •Data engineering, solution architecture, and cloud technologies consulting
- •Building Drover - open source workflow orchestrator for parallel AI coding agents
- •Advisory, project work (10 days–3 months), and managed services
Oct 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 6 mos
Founder
DataEngBytes
Sydney, Australia
- •6 meetups and 4 conference cities spanning 2 countries
- •Brisbane, Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney conferences
- •Relationship building and community development
- •https://dataengbytes.com/
Mar 2019 - May 2024 · 5 yrs 3 mos
Co-founder and organiser
ServerlessDays Sydney
Greater Sydney Area
- •Relationship building
- •Communication
- •Community development
Apr 2018 - May 2024 · 6 yrs 2 mos
Co-organiser
Sydney Serverless Meetup
Greater Sydney Area
- •Serverless
- •Community development
- •Technical meetups
Feb 2022 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos
Founder, Director of Sales
cloudseeder
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- •AWS-focused consultancy experiment with 3 colleagues
- •Explored product-market fit for cloud consulting
Nov 2019 - Apr 2020 · 6 mos
Solutions Architect
Itoc Australia
Greater Sydney Area
Sep 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos
Cloud Applications Engineer
Phoenix HSL
Greater Sydney Area
- •Built and maintained Serverless Python runtime APIs on AWS Lambda with DynamoDB and API Gateway
- •CI/CD pipelines on TeamCity and GitLab CI
- •Managed ECS infrastructure, bill optimisation
- •Performance improvements — seconds to milliseconds
- •Built Kubernetes Flask APIs with Terraform and Helm charts
Jul 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos
Data Engineering Lead
A Cloud Guru
Greater Sydney Area
- •Managed serverless data engineering infrastructure, Redshift data warehouse, and BI tool
- •Built S3 event-driven ingestion batch processing jobs into Redshift
- •Setup Firehose streams of changelog data into Redshift
- •Onboarded new Data Engineering tool, presented data strategy to leadership
- •Developed CI/CD pipeline for semantic layer build
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos
Lead, Customer Analytics
Suncorp Group
Greater Sydney Area
- •Led development of key group-wide dashboards across customer and marketing analytics
- •First Group Campaign Dashboard with Lift over Control on response, revenue, and statistical significance
- •Python developer in Unica 10 upgrade project; developed Python-based triggers
- •Led automation and development of group customer dashboards
May 2014 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos
Analytics Consultant
BT Financial Group
Greater Sydney Area
- •Managed customer psychographic segmentation model
- •Managed clickstream data feed from Omniture to Hadoop and Aster (big data platform)
- •Brought online Tableau Server for BT; developed visualisations
- •Web analytics projects marrying customer behaviour with digital footprint
- •Re-target campaigns for customers who viewed relevant content
Mar 2014 - May 2014 · 3 mos
Analytics Consultant
Suncorp Group
Greater Sydney Area
- •Rolled out new Cognos reporting
- •Implemented JIRA project for team to track analytics work
Jul 2013 - Jan 2014 · 7 mos
Data Analytics Manager
Samsung Electronics
Greater Sydney Area
- •Doubled marketable database within 3 months
- •Created Product Recommendation Engine
- •Managed external agency data mining project
- •Created scoping document for Marketing Data Warehouse
Jul 2012 - Apr 2013 · 10 mos
Data Analyst, Analytics & Campaign Delivery
Foxtel
Greater Sydney Area
- •Analysed customer calling patterns and modelled churn for risk profiles
- •Created outbound retention campaigns based on risk attributes
- •Worked with Data Warehouses (Toad for Oracle, MS SQL Server 2012)
- •Trained analysts on Toad for Oracle database
Jun 2011 - Jul 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos
Data Analyst
Austar
Ultimo, NSW
- •SQL scripts for retention and acquisition marketing (eDM, DM, Telemarketing)
- •Alterian CRM build and UAT testing on tables up to 5 million rows
- •Queries on tables up to 200 million records
Jul 2010 - Jun 2011 · 1 yr
Data Analyst
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
Sydney
- •Pre- and post-campaign analytics, traffic light campaign management
- •SQL queries, Excel, Access, eDM campaign systems
Jun 2009 - Jul 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos
Data Analyst
FMRC Legal
Sydney
- •Managed monthly debtors survey and P&L benchmarking for top law firms
- •SQL, Excel, Business Objects, Access
Jul 2005 - Dec 2006 · 1 yr 6 mos
Data & Systems Analyst
Department of Health and Families, NT Government
Greater Darwin Area
- •Reports, scientific papers, epidemiological information for stakeholders
- •FileMaker Pro, Excel, Access, SAS, SPSS, Business Objects
- •ICPC, ICD-10, ABS data sets; HR reports on staffing
Education
Bachelor of Behavioural Science
Charles Darwin University
Research Methodology and Quantitative Methods · 2005 – 2006
Bachelor of Medical Science
La Trobe University
Incomplete · 2003 – 2004
Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
AWS Certified Big Data - Specialty
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
May 2018 – May 2020
Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals for AWS Professionals
Coursera
Jun 2017
Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
Coursera
Jun 2017
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jun 2017 – Jun 2019
Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Coursera
May 2017
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Apr 2017 – Apr 2019
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Mar 2017 – Mar 2019
R Programming
Coursera Course Certificates
Nov 2016
Server-side Development with NodeJS
Coursera Course Certificates
Nov 2016
Multiplatform Mobile App Development with Web Technologies
Coursera Course Certificates
Aug 2016
Introduction to Big Data
Coursera Course Certificates
Jul 2016
Front-End JavaScript Frameworks: AngularJS
Coursera Course Certificates
Jun 2016
The Data Scientist's Toolbox
Coursera Course Certificates
May 2016
Front-End Web UI Frameworks and Tools
Coursera Course Certificates
Apr 2016
HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Coursera Course Certificates
Mar 2016
Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach
Coursera Course Certificates
Feb 2016
Skills
Technologies
Let's work together
Available for consulting, advisory, and speaking engagements.