The Flying Hellfish Digital Journey
Channel: GeoscienceAustralia
Date: 2021-04-14

Presented by Bill Farmakis on 10 March 2021

The Flying Hellfish provide Geoscience Australia with web portals of an unprecedented quality and impact.  They have achieved this by embracing automation, digital culture and cloud to uplift Geoscience Australia’s web portal presence to scale and meet the demands of the modern user.

In 2014 these concepts were only ideas and experiments.  However, since the team formed in 2016 they have been on a transformational journey towards a new way of working which has delivered radically better digital products than what was available at the outset.  User experience is now at the forefront of our web portals, with the common look and feel providing a seamless experience across more than 15 digital products on any device (including smartphones).  The security has been proven to be state-of-the-art, and the products are designed to be fast and responsive.

In this presentation you will learn how the team utilises NoOps (the No Operations paradigm) to build, operate and support these products while continuing to quickly and efficiently deliver new and innovative digital products.

About the Speaker:

Bill Farmakis is a passionate Software Engineer with over 15 years of industry experience in full stack application development.  He joined Geoscience Australia in 2009 as a software engineer and currently leads the Flying Hellfish team, which is responsible for building several of Geoscience Australia’s high profile web applications including Earthquakes@GA and Digital Earth Australia Hotspots.