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Nik Malyaris

Architect and Tech Lead

  • Melbourne, Australia
  • Tech Lead / Consulting
  • Team & Project Leadership
  • Architecture & Full Stack

I'm a technologist, consultant and tinkerer of all things digital. My passion in life is learning - and I learn best by taking things apart, and sometimes even rebuilding them!

I work as an architect and technology lead, leading teams to deliver complex, large-scale digital products.

Over the past decade I've worked across financial services, government, retail, logistics and everything in between. My approach is always human-centred: technology is a means to an end, and the end is always about the people. I find this to be universally true; whether it's you, your team, your stakeholders, or your users - and usually a combination thereof.

More recently I've been helping organisations build digital maturity, particularly around AI adoption. This means designing practical, agentic systems and establishing processes for the future that keep humans in the loop, enabling teams to move faster without losing quality or control.

I'm a big believer in right sizing. Sometimes there is a genuine need for enetrprise-grade content management systems, strict AU data sovereignty, white box penetration testing with extensive red teaming exercises, comprehensive custom analytics reporting, highly interactive and funnelled e-commerce implementation, and the ability to handle tens of thousands of concurrent connections. Sometimes you just need a Squarespace site and a Google form - usually somewhere in between. I want to see the web kept open and democratised - a big part of that is not gatekeeping it to big corporations, and finding the right balance for every use case.

Outside of work I'm an avid chef, photographer and general tech nerd. I'm drawn to unusual ways of controlling or displaying, modernised retro hardware, and anything that challenges conventional expectations of what a thing is supposed to do or how a thing ought to work.