TypeScriptMCPGenAIAgents
Agentic MCP Teaming
Multi-agent coordination framework where named specialists collaborate via a shared MCP bus: parallel review, unanimous consensus on design, and isolated Git worktree implementation.
View project →Nick Bourke Solutions Engineering Leader
Solutions engineering leader with 15+ years helping enterprises and governments across ANZ, ASEAN and Greater China adopt emerging technology with confidence. I have built and scaled technical pre-sales practices from the ground up at every major infrastructure shift (security, data protection, cloud and cloud-native), translating complex platforms into evaluations that risk-averse buyers will actually deploy. Today I am focused on GenAI: embedding it into how my global team solves customer problems, and on the trust, security and identity questions that decide whether enterprises move AI into production.
Selected Work
Projects spanning infrastructure automation, security platforms, and agentic tooling, built to solve real operational problems.
AgentsRAGGovernanceMarkdown
Steward
A harness-agnostic control platform for agent coding sessions: compounding Markdown memory with local hybrid retrieval, a curation loop that keeps it true, and an always-on guidance and execution boundary every session inherits.
View project → GoLLMKubernetesDevSecOps
Renovate Triage
Scheduled LLM risk verdicts for Renovate dependency PRs: a fail-closed automerge gate where the model can only withhold approval, never grant it without deterministic CI passing first.
View project → PythonAgentsAutomationGenAI
Warden
An autonomous agent that operates the homelab end to end, proposing changes, running deployments, and keeping a durable memory of past decisions so the why survives between sessions, under its own least-privilege identity.
View project → GoReactOpenTofuSecurity
Firewall
Zone-based firewall policy framework with a Go/React editor, deterministic OpenTofu compiler, compile-time break-glass invariants, and advisory LLM risk evaluation before apply.
View project → GoKubernetesNetBoxObservability
NetBox Ingest
Production Go service that correlates infrastructure from Proxmox, DNS, and UniFi into unified NetBox entries: multi-source deduplication, continuous sync, and Prometheus metrics for full visibility.
View project →Experience
Sep 2024 – Jul 2026
Senior Sales Engineer
Sysdig
Lead technical pre-sales across ANZ, ASEAN and Greater China for cloud-native security, focused on large enterprise, high-security and financial-services accounts.
Senior Sales Engineer
Sysdig
- Achieved a 75% technical win rate on proofs of value across enterprise, financial services and government.
- Opened the Korean market from zero, closing major financial-services customers.
- Closed strategic "big bet" deals across financial services, telco and manufacturing.
- Introduced LLM tooling into the global SE workflow and standardised PoV documentation.
- Integrated Sysdig PoVs into customer CI/CD and DevOps pipelines.
- Owned regional technical hiring for Sales Engineers and led regional workshops and industry events.
Jan 2022 – Sep 2024
Senior Cloud Security Engineer (Pre-sales)
Tenable
First dedicated Cloud Security SE for Tenable in APJ; built the cloud security go-to-market through acquisition integration (Ermetic), with a heavy focus on identity.
Senior Cloud Security Engineer (Pre-sales)
Tenable
- Built Tenable's entire APJ Cloud Security capability from the ground up.
- Developed the Tenable Cloud Security Essential Eight standard.
- Educated the wider field team on cloud and led masterclasses on cloud and container security.
- Published thought-leadership articles in industry media.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022
Senior Security Engineer (Pre-sales)
Tenable
Developed the Northern ANZ market (NSW, ACT, NT, QLD), focused on financial services and government.
Senior Security Engineer (Pre-sales)
Tenable
- Closed the three largest deals in Tenable APJ, including the largest single ANZ deal (health sector).
- Grew the region into Tenable's second-largest globally; closed two ANZ banks across cloud and on-prem.
- Trained 100+ partner engineers to pre-sales certification.
- Promoted to Senior Sales Engineer for consistent over-target execution.
May 2016 – Jan 2017
Infrastructure Manager
Redlands
Interim ICT leadership with overall responsibility for the technology platform, architecture and infrastructure projects.
Infrastructure Manager
Redlands
- Delivered backup-and-recovery, wireless redesign and data-centre upgrade programs.
Feb 2015 – May 2016
Systems Engineer (Pre-sales)
Apple Inc.
Pre-sales systems engineering for the NSW education market, spanning K–12 through higher education.
Systems Engineer (Pre-sales)
Apple Inc.
- Implemented supporting infrastructure for 2,800 schools, reducing traffic costs by 40%.
- Expanded the BYOD program across major systemic education.
Sep 2012 – Feb 2015
Senior Technology Consultant (Pre-sales)
RSA, Security Division of EMC
Broadened remit across DLP, network security analytics and governance tooling; helped rebuild the RSA brand following the RSA breach.
Senior Technology Consultant (Pre-sales)
RSA, Security Division of EMC
- Owned the DLP portfolio for Australia and New Zealand.
- Delivered successful proofs of concept to major enterprise and government.
Sep 2008 – Sep 2012
Senior Sales Engineer
Symantec
Security pre-sales for NSW, growing from mid-market into large enterprise.
Senior Sales Engineer
Symantec
- Sold major solutions across government, financial services, construction, legal and health.
- Led the regional Technical Champions group for two years.
- Attained CISSP certification; promoted to Senior Sales Engineer.
Sep 2003 – Aug 2008
Earlier roles
Alphawest Services (Optus Business) · KineticIT
Earlier roles
Alphawest Services (Optus Business) · KineticIT
- Security Engineer, Alphawest Services (Optus Business) · Oct 2006 – Aug 2008
- Network & Security Engineer, KineticIT · Sep 2003 – Oct 2006
Expertise
Blending executive stakeholder management with deep technical credibility across security, cloud, and emerging AI platforms.
Pre-sales & GTM
Enterprise technical evaluationsGTM & SE practice build-outValue sellingExecutive stakeholder managementRegional team leadership & hiring
Technical
GenAI / LLM integrationCloud & cloud-native securityIdentityCI/CD & DevOpsExposure managementKubernetesCISSP
Education & Certifications
Education
Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Science
University of Western Australia · 2003
Majors: Information Technology Systems, Information Technology Applications, Electronic Commerce.
Certifications
- CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
Latest Writing
Notes on solutions engineering, platform security, and practical GenAI.
My Second Brain Learned What It's For
My agent's memory got very good at knowing what was true and had no idea what any of it was in aid of. So I gave it a statement of ends, a telos, and a sweep that asks which of my goals currently have nothing moving. The interesting part wasn't the machinery. It was having to write the goals down.
Read postMy Second Brain Grew Up
A while ago I explained that my AI agent's memory is just a folder of Markdown notes, the same note-taking stack I use for myself. Then the folder got big. This is about the three things a notebook needs once it stops being small, and how each one turned out to be something a human brain already does.
Read postMy AI Agent and I Share a Brain
My AI agent keeps a memory between sessions. Everyone assumes that means a vector database and an API bill. It's actually Obsidian, Markdown, and a local search engine, the same note-taking stack I use for myself. Here's why human and machine memory quietly converged on the same design.
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