Gopal Shah

Strategic Operations Leader for Technology Excellence

A visual summary of my experience and qualifications for the Senior Technical Manager role at Transport for NSW, showcasing a proven track record in AIOps, Digital Reliability, and Project Delivery.

Core Competencies

My expertise is balanced across technical leadership, strategic planning, and operational management, enabling me to drive innovation and deliver robust technology solutions.

Proven Track Record of Impact

100%

Uptime for 6 Months

Maintained flawless availability for the Everyday Rewards website.

26+

Engineers Led

Directed high-performing teams toward business objectives.

40+

Major Changes

Deployed overnight with zero downtime for a major program launch.

95%

Fraud Issues Resolved

Eliminated platform fraud issues through structured analysis.

Career Journey

Domain Operation Manager

WooliesX (Woolworths Group)

Apr 2025 - Present

Leading operations for Loyalty, Insurance, and Mobile domains. Driving AIOps strategy and managing teams to maintain platform stability and performance.

Reliability Operation Manager

WooliesX (Woolworths Group)

Mar 2023 - Mar 2025

Served as primary incident commander and managed a team of 24 engineers, ensuring uptime for web and mobile apps for Everyday Insurance.

Reliability Operation Specialist

WooliesX (Woolworths Group)

Oct 2021 - Mar 2023

Provided 24x7 on-call support, managed high-volume deployments, and supported over 15 million B2C customers for Everyday Rewards.

Managed Services Manager, APAC

Optimisely Australia

Sep 2016 - Jan 2019

Led the APAC support team, delivering 99.99% uptime for high-availability web platforms and elevating incident handling protocols.

Alignment with TfNSW Focus Capabilities

My experience directly maps to the core capabilities required for the Senior Technical Manager role, demonstrating my readiness to deliver value from day one.

Technical Toolbox

Cloud & AI/ML

  • Azure & GCP Infrastructure
  • Microsoft AI Foundry
  • Google AI Studio
  • AWS Management

Monitoring & Observability

  • New Relic & AppInsight
  • Dynatrace & Splunk
  • PagerDuty & CloudWatch
  • End-to-End Architecture

DevOps, ITSM & Delivery

  • GitHub Actions & Azure CI/CD
  • ServiceNOW & JIRA
  • Akamai & Cloudflare
  • APIGEE API Management