Ivo Coutinho

AWS · Datacenter Edge Engineering · Melbourne, VIC

• Own end-to-end Operations for the DC-Edge fleet (50,000+ network devices, global).
• Lead AI/GenAI strategy, adoption & implementation across DC-Edge engineering and ops.
• Stood up a new in-org software dev team anchoring the manual-ops → SDN-controller transition.
• Building the first two SDN platform services: Capacity Restoration Service + Safety Configuration Service.
• Own security compliance & patching across the DC-Edge fleet (AWS baselines, vuln SLAs, audit).

Swoop Telecom · Melbourne, VIC

• Stood up an A$50M+ metro-fibre program (300 km civil, 1,200 km pit-and-pipe), delivered on schedule.
• 30% program cost reduction; +20% revenue via conduit/fibre standardisation for DC-to-DC hyperscale.
• Grew FTTP team 0 → 4 in 6 months; built delivery standards + an in-house GIS tool.

Uniti (Opticomm) · Melbourne, VIC

• Mentored 16 engineers/architects; +50% team engagement; 98% on-time delivery; +50% design-office productivity.
• +90% deployment standardisation via templates + Python/API automation; delivered an upgrade 25% under budget.
• Telstra Velocity asset sale due diligence; Regional FTTP (QLD/VIC/NSW); Australia-first Remote MAC-PHY & XGS-PON PoCs.

Telstra · Melbourne, VIC

• 500+ racks and 3,000+ network nodes delivered ahead of schedule; A$120M+ new business revenue.
• nbn Upstream HFC (HDA) 15% under budget & 2 months early; HFC node split of 500+ optical nodes with zero customer impact.

Vodafone PT / ZTE / ZON · Portugal

• IPv6 deployment 6 months early at Vodafone PT (2014–15); first GPON interop Ericsson↔Huawei (2M+ homes).
• ~9,000 km broadband with DST/ZTE (2013–14); deployed Portugal's first FTTH at ZON (2008–12).