AutoPilot Solutions: Selected Architectural Index
From 2017 to 2019, AutoPilot operated as an agile boutique technology consultancy delivering distributed frameworks, advanced automation, and complex cloud migrations.
01. SkyRamp VPN / Getflix
- Objective: Architect and deploy a highly cost-optimized, low-margin global consumer VPN network with custom geolocation routing metrics.
- Design & Topology:
- Constructed an AWS multi-region infrastructure backed by custom CloudWatch alarms triggering performance-based Auto-Scaling events.
- Optimized raw network throughput via deliberate Packet Steering protocols on EC2 instances—binding distinct CPU cores entirely to independent RX/TX transport streams to maximize connection density.
- Stack: AWS, HAProxy, OpenVPN Core, Route 53 (dynamic DNS via cli53), Python, Node.js.
02. Woolworths Online — Fulfillment Re-Architecting
- Objective: Remediate and harden a fragile corporate cloud transition for a multi-million dollar nationwide online logistics vehicle.
- Interventions:
- Re-engineered legacy monolithic components into a resilient service-bus-driven platform.
- Introduced standalone Elasticsearch clusters to aggressively decouple heavy core database I/O workloads.
- Transformed manual release environments into automated, immutable, continuous deployment validation loops.
- Stack: Azure Service Bus, .NET Core, Docker (Mono-containers), Elasticsearch.
03. QLD Health & Aged Care Gateways
- Government Cloud Migration Portal: Developed an internal server migration gateway leveraging infrastructure platform APIs to map, snapshot, and cleanly lift legacy physical data center profiles into structured public clouds.
- Aged Care Gateway Engine: Successfully delivered a highly secure matching portal incorporating the federal AUSkey digital credential system. Awarded Innovator of the Year for operational execution alongside Sundale.
- Stack: AWS API, Azure API, VMware vRealize (VCO), Node.js, Secure Government Portals.