Kirk has been working in the IT sector in Australia for over 25 years. He has worked in various roles across Australia in realms of data management and application development in private industry and government. Kirk has developed a number of successful data-driven applications such as spatial (mapping) and data set integration applications used across the mining and resources sectors worldwide. Kirk has witnessed the evolution of data stacks and data access across a number of business fields over the course of his career and he has deep experience in integrating disparate data sets. Most recently he is working at Solstice Energy in Tasmania where he has built a next-generation data stack that delivers large efficiency advantages over the competition. Originally from California, Kirk completed his undergraduate degree at the University of California at Berkeley.
