What
A security-focused, self-hosted collaboration service used across the Australian Government for restricted communication, file sharing and project coordination.
Why
To keep a large government-wide collaboration platform stable, manageable and integrated with existing identity and account-management systems.
Who
Department of Finance
Working in Australian Government Information Management Office within the central Australian Government agency, which was responsible for whole-of-government ICT, digital services and web standards. I worked with a small web-focused team, from apprentice to Whole of Government Software as a Service tech lead.
How
Administration
Delivered administration, support and configuration work across a self-hosted Atlassian stack to keep collaboration teams productive.
Development
Built and maintained custom Java (Spring) tooling for account and group management, simplifying core platform operations.
Built the Govdex support site on the Govspace platform, giving agencies a dedicated place for help content, onboarding guidance and service updates.
Hosting
Supported the self-hosted RHEL/Linux platform, maintaining uptime and operational reliability under sustained government workload.
Integrations
Integrated account-management tooling with AD and LDAP so collaboration aligned with existing identity systems.
With
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Custom CSS -
GitLab -
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JavaScript -
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Linux -
Photoshop -
Spring -
WordPress
Final products
