At the heart of The Data Foundry you will find an amazing team comprising some of Australia’s most customer focused, DATA DRIVEN SPECIALISTS.

Paul Macey - Chief Data and Analytics Officer

Paul Macey
Chief Data and Analytics Officer

Paul has 20+ years of hands-on experience working in data analytics, data engineering, data security and data governance.  He has a Grad Dip in Software Development from Swinburne University as well as formal certifications for AWS and Redis. Paul is also an ISACA Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer.  He worked for AWS from 2017 – 2021 where his last role was that of Specialist Solution Architect for Big Data, Analytics, and Insights. Since joining TDF in 2021, he has overseen the strategy, security, governance, design, build and assurance aspects of our customer projects.

Raechel Milner
Data Engineer

Raechel joined TDF in early 2022 as a Data Analyst then transitioned into a Data Engineer role a year later. She has a Bachelors in Engineering from UNSW as well as formal certifications for AWS, Snowflake and UI/UX. Prior to joining TDF, she gained experience as a full-stack engineer, developing applications in the automation, analytics, machine learning and monitoring spaces. Raechel has considerable experience using AWS, Python, SQL, PowerBI, and Tableau. Since joining TDF, Raechel has built data analytics and data engineering solutions for federal government, state government, high-performance sports and emergency services organisations.

Adam Dumicich
Data Engineering Team Lead

Adam joined TDF in 2022 as a Senior Data Engineer then transitioned into a Data Engineering Team Lead role in early 2023.  He has a Bachelors in Business Information Systems (Databases) from Swinburne University as well as hands-on experience using Python, SQL, Matillion, Tableau, Excel, Postgres, PL/SQL (Oracle), RightNow CRM (Oracle), DBT, Prefect, Elementary, Snowflake, AirByte, ThoughtSpot, QuickSight and AWS.  Since joining TDF, Adam has designed and built data engineering solutions for higher education, state government, high-performance sports and emergency services organisations.

Pat Chaiyabud
Data Engineer

Pat joined TDF in 2021 as a Data Engineer. She has a Bachelors in Actuarial Science and a Masters in Data Science from Monash University as well as formal certifications for AWS, Snowflake and Databricks. Pat has considerable experience using AWS, Python, SQL, R, Pyspark, CSS, HTML, and WordPress. Since joining TDF, she has built data engineering solutions for higher education, state government and high-performance sports customers.

Brad Coughlan
Founder & Managing Director

Brad has 35+ years of experience in the IT industry and has worked extensively in both the private and public sectors in Australia, England and Ireland.  He has a Grad Dip in Business Technology and a Masters of Business Administration in Technology Management from Monash University as well as formal certifications for AWS.  Prior to launching The Data Foundry, Brad worked for AWS from 2013 – 2019, where his last role was that of Australia & New Zealand Country Manager, Public Sector.