UNIHACK x CSIT Presents: Internal Disruptors, a Q&A with current and past grads by Australia Post

How do you help disrupt a 200-year-old business from the inside?

What’s it like to get your start in the tech industry with a leader in Agile software practices?

Hear from real, current and past graduates in our Product Innovation Engineering team on what’s it’s like to start your career in a 300-people-strong cross-functional team with impact to 25 million Australians. We’ve got talented engineers, brilliant analysts, razor-sharp service designers, eagle-eyed quality analysts and first-class product managers working together collaboratively with others to bring the best experiences we can to communities that matter.

Our panel across the 
👩🏻‍💻 software engineer, 
💡 service design, 
📊 product innovation, and 
📝 business analyst crafts
will give you an insight into life at Australia Post and how it all comes together from the perspective of our early career team members.

(Psst: it helps that our management structure is modelled after Spotify’s revolutionary matrix approach! 💁)

Introducing our panelists:
James Kelada | LinkedIn
James is a full-stack software engineer who has just recently completed his first year at AusPost as a grad-developer. After graduating in cyber security in 2019, he joined AusPost in this role as he fell in love with programming. One year later he works in Team Ewok as a full stack developer where he continues to learn and grow through AusPost’s graduate program.

Ying Wang | LinkedIn
Ying is a systems-led and service designer at Australia Post with a Bachelor of Communication Design at RMIT. Ying works on a diverse range of projects, on any given day she might be conducting research, facilitating co-design workshops and prototyping concepts to uncover new opportunities for Australia Post.

Henri Pryde | LinkedIn
Henri is an Innovation Associate who just finished his second year working with Australia Post. In his time rotating around the business, Henri has also worked as a Business Analyst and a Product Owner, creating a full funnel understanding of how a software product goes from idea to reality. His day's are full of researching and testing new ideas that can help Australia Post create more and more first class experiences.

Fiona Price | LinkedIn
Fiona is an Agile Business Analyst who has been with Australia Post for over 2 years. The journey to her dream career as a BA has included time in governance at a bank, a stopover in data analytics consulting and even time as a front end software engineer at AusPost. All this led her to a role she loves, working with Team Ewok - one of the web app teams that brings some of the business’ most important digital experiences to life

...and our superstar MC... 
Stephen Tran | LinkedIn
Stephen is an Agile Business Analyst, currently within the Payments and Financial Services space and has been with Australia Post for over 4 years! Coming from a Bachelor of Computer Science degree, Stephen has been lucky enough to go through various different roles within the business, from Developer, to part-time Iteration Manager, to Customer Support, and finally to Business Analyst. The environment within AusPost has been able to give Stephen the opportunity to try out many different things, in hopes that one day, he will find that job in which he will truly shine!