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I'm Chris McKelt

Fractional CTO | Architect | Forward Deployed Engineer

Enterprise Solution Architect with 25+ years' experience leading strategic initiatives across digital & data products. Multi-cloud certified, customer focused, and an independent advisor aligned to your success.

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Program Solution Architect — Imdex
CURRENT

2026–Present · Global Agentic Data Mesh Platform. Multi-cloud design, Snowflake-based with AKS AI/ML workloads, Kafka, Airflow and DBT.

Program Solution Architect — WA Dept of Water & Environmental Regulation

2025–2026 · Architecture leadership across Dynamics 365/Power Platform, integration and data workstreams for the Environment Online program.

Cloud Data / Solution Architect — Synergy (Virtual Power Plant)

2025–2026 · Cloud-native architecture for rooftop solar inverter telemetry ingestion, bitemporal XTDB datastore, DAPR microservices and Azure Databricks forecasting.

Solution Architect FinOps — Department of Education WA

2024 · Multi-cloud FinOps cost optimisation across Azure/AWS/Oracle — ~75% reduction in billed costs.

Principal Solution Architect — Versent

Dec 2022 – Jul 2023 · Cloud migration and integration modernisation including AWS landing zones for ASX-listed clients and MuleSoft-to-AWS migration for Curtin University.

Practice Lead — Insight (APAC)

Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 · Architecture and delivery leadership. Principal Integration Architect for Club Assist APAC IT Modernization — D365, 20+ integrations, BizTalk to Azure Migration.

Engineering Manager / Product Owner / Scrum Master — Bankwest

Nov 2017 – Dec 2018 · Led squads delivering payments, digital account tools, online lending, CRM/branch systems and Royal Commission remediation.