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We make infrastructure work for your business.

Founded in 2006, Spry has concentrated on delivering and managing Information Technology platforms and solutions that contribute to growth, profit and competitive advantage for our customers.

Best practice

The experience we have acquired building and operating some of the world’s largest internet systems is applied to everything we do.

Provider agnostic

We can help you choose the best solution to meet your needs.

Integration with existing teams

We operate alongside your existing teams, we are there to support them and make them successful.

Operationally focused

We operate Infrastructure to deliver business results, we measure and report how well that is achieved.

About Us

Client led

Our clients understand their business. We are there to improve business results by providing the best technical solution to match your needs.

Professional

We ensure that everything we do is planned, documented and well tested.

Experienced

We have grown up with the Internet. We can recommend what works best and what pitfalls to avoid along the way saving time and money.

Trustworthy

We have worked with a large variety of clients across many industries and know that our reputation is one of our best assets.

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We can review your infrastructure needs and recommend a solid foundation to improve your business outcomes.

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Our Services

Infrastructure and cloud consulting

Infrastructure and cloud consulting

If you are looking for expertise in balancing the utilisation of private, public or hybrid cloud services then Spry can help you maintain the competitive edge.

Managed infrastructure services

Managed infrastructure services

Spry manages infrastructure for customers worldwide and provides the assurance that your IT operations will receive continuous attention to ensuring service quality, performance and security so you can focus on your business.

CI / CD, DevOps, systems admin

CI / CD, DevOps, systems admin

Ensuring high system availability as the business continuously pushes changes can be a challenge. Spry has experience across the variety of tools and processes that can be used to automate, monitor and report on all changes and provide an immediate understanding of any impact.

IT merger & acquisition consulting

IT merger & acquisition consulting

Spry can review the key areas of IT merger integration, applications, infrastructure, people, projects and suppliers. We partner with our clients to assess key technology issues as part of the overall merger or acquisition.

Core Team

Andrew Kent

Andrew Kent

CEO/Founder

Andrew was one of the founding members and architects of OzEmail which grew to be the largest ISP in Australia and held the role of Chief Technology Office until 1999. Following the acquisition of OzEmail by US multi-national UUNet, Andrew held the role of Managing Director Asia Pacific Operations.

In 1999 Andrew founded MessageCare, a spam filtering platform which was subsequently acquired by WebCentral. As part of the acquisition Andrew joined WebCentral as Chief Technology Officer, a role he held until 2004.

In 2006 Andrew founded Spry Business Technology Solutions which has developed into a successful IT Managed Services and consulting organisation. Andrew is located in Sydney , Australia.

Michael Herman

Michael Herman

CTO

Michael has designed, deployed and operated some of the largest ISP services in Australia with a technical career beginning early in the growth of OzEmail.

Michael continued to advance his technical capabilities and provided an essential contribution to the UUNET and WorldCom global systems teams in the management of reliability, availability and scale.

As the Spry CTO, Michael remains at the forefront of cloud systems with deep experience across current DevOps tools and processes and how to apply those in a reliable, scalable way to support high availability commercial operations.

Matthew Melvin

Matthew Melvin

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Matthew has many years experience designing, writing, deploying, and supporting Unix systems and network services. He has excellent system skills and the in-depth understanding required to manage complex environments to support business needs.

Matthew has a wide breadth of knowledge at all levels from shell scripting, code development and systems management and uses that deep experience to design and deploy comprehensive CI/CD pipelines using a variety of toolsets across different target cloud or on-premise platforms.

Working with various clients using Agile and ITIL style methodologies allows Matthew to quickly adapt to our client’s processes and become a valuable contributing member of their team.

Michael Pick

Michael Pick

Infrastructure Engineer

Michael has been managing large systems and supporting ISP services since 1997 and has gained skills in a variety of system monitoring and management tools that can be used to ensure system health and performance is optimal.

Michael has completed university studies in Geology and from that developed a scientific approach to service delivery.

The experience Michael has gained developing system automation tools for NEXTDC in 2014 has him well placed for DevOps work across container based systems (Docker / Kubernetes etc.) and knowing how to manage all the moving parts to ensure systems can scale.

Ms Whei-Wen Cola-Pinto, Retired Senior Vice President of IT and Engineering

Ms Whei-Wen Cola-Pinto, Retired Senior Vice President of IT and Engineering

2016

“Spry were an exceptional complement to our eCommerce and Web Operations team at Nasty Gal. My observation of their added value towards us was strong commitment and conviction above and beyond the SLAs. Spry views themselves a fellow team mate and working side-by-side with us through thick and thin.”

Ms Whei-Wen Cola-Pinto, Retired Senior Vice President of IT and Engineering

Ms Whei-Wen Cola-Pinto, Retired Senior Vice President of IT and Engineering

2016

“Spry and their staff always go out of their way to create and deliver value as well as take ownership and be accountable for their contributions to our eCommerce and Web Operations business. Their people consistently displayed competence, creativity, problem solving skills and professionalism in their conduct. Spry’s team always introduced and offered well thought out technology and process solutions to our operations. Spry treated our business as if it was their own! They always joined hands with us.”

Gareth Ballester, Senior Web Applications Developer

Gareth Ballester, Senior Web Applications Developer

2016

Web Ops, System Infrastructure engineering & Administration are the most critical IT services for a company whose revenue stream relies on web & mobile traffic. Without proper guidance and configuration, many critical issues will not be discovered until it’s too late, whether it’s costly extended downtime, or even worse, a security breach that may tarnish users’ trust in an organizations. By leveraging a team with vast experience in these areas, a company can ensure they avoid critical issues, as well as provide the most efficient infrastructure on an ongoing basis to open up their business development to its fullest potential.

For many companies, these aren’t core competencies, as hiring or developing the talent is difficult, costly, and sometimes not even possible. Often, only bigger companies can pull it off. By leveraging Spry, you supply your business with the highest quality of these critical services, minimising risk, increasing efficiency, and removing limitations. Spry can transform your business by giving you the guidance and expertise you need to create these core competencies.

Ms Whei-Wen Cola-Pinto, Retired Senior Vice President of IT and Engineering

Ms Whei-Wen Cola-Pinto, Retired Senior Vice President of IT and Engineering

2016

“From the get-go, Spry have always worked seamlessly with Nasty Gal. There has been so much respect and trust between the two companies. Spry carries out the change management process for continuous integration, application and business functions in the web/ecommerce production site. It was a very effective and streamlined collaboration without hesitation or barrier. What a great partnership and enablement joint effort. A consistent 99.999% of website uptime is the lifeblood for an internet eCommerce business. This would NOT have been possible without SPRY.”

Ms Whei-Wen Cola-Pinto, Retired Senior Vice President of IT and Engineering

Ms Whei-Wen Cola-Pinto, Retired Senior Vice President of IT and Engineering

2016

“My team and I have never heard the words “we can’t help” or “this is out of contract agreement” from Spry. They were heavily invested in our success and rapidly developed a holistic understanding and appreciation of our business, sometimes more than our own staff. Spry’s work model is “ahead of the curve and anticipating potential issue before it becomes reality”. They have established a comprehensive and complex system monitoring and alert mechanism. This was an enormously valuable to Nasty Gal reputation as a brand. We are viewed as reliable, trusted, and quality eCommerce business operation.”

Francis H. Yu, CTO

Francis H. Yu, CTO

October 15 2009

“Spry is a top notch IT services team. They have broad and deep expertise in building and operating large, complex systems based on open-source technologies. They are professional, dependable, effective, and highly committed to clients’ success.”

Gareth Ballester, Senior Web Applications Developer

Gareth Ballester, Senior Web Applications Developer

2016

“We were made to feel assured by Spry that someone was always watching our entire online ecommerce systems infrastructure. Spry established comprehensive systems monitoring and broad surveillance of our site infrastructure and all dependent supporting systems, which when coupled with their vast expertise and experience with web scale operations ensured we were always ready to respond to any situation that impacted our sites availability, responsiveness and performance to our online shopping customers.”

Gareth Ballester, Senior Web Applications Developer

Gareth Ballester, Senior Web Applications Developer

2016

“There was an impressive amount of proactive systems improvements going on all the time from Spry into our ecommerce systems infrastructure and web operations environment. It reached broadly and deeply, and embraced our growing maturity into DevOps. Spry led us very wisely and expertly. They would regularly be reviewing the performance, security, and efficiency data from our systems and proposing to us areas to be targeted for improvement or rectification. This was to us a very rare form of deep accountability behaviour from a 3rd party services provider to our business, and we felt Spry was ‘one of us’ all the time. It appeared they were ‘invested’ in our success as much as our own staff in passion and commitment!”

Gareth Ballester, Senior Web Applications Developer

Gareth Ballester, Senior Web Applications Developer

2016

“Spry proved exceptional value to our Web Operations, underpinning our high volume online ecommerce business with their vast pool of web scale infrastructure engineering and operational support expertise and experience. They showed much appreciated leadership, and guidance, to our internal teams across both infrastructure, apps development, and Web/DevOps to regularly introduce better and more efficient process (especially process automation, data analytics and surfacing key insights). Our internal technology and operations environment was highly interrupt driven and Spry’s vastly experienced technical staff always brought an air of calm, considered decision making, and obvious experience and wisdom to our maturing technology, people and process mix in our organisation. This helped significantly underpin our ecommerce systems and web operations stability, agility, and responsiveness to our business. Spry were consistently leading us by example on prioritising all our ‘interrupt’ events and guiding us to address them competently and assuredly in order of significance to our web operations whilst always aiming to mitigate any potential business risk.”

Gareth Ballester, Senior Web Applications Developer

Gareth Ballester, Senior Web Applications Developer

2016

“In addition to our main ecommerce applications and web operations, we saw ourselves engaging Spry guiding us with our Internal IT systems and applications infrastructure as well as project delivery processes. This helped us further mature how we serviced our internal business stakeholders who were dependant on our technology team at NastyGal to enable them to drive our company’s business development and ensure we continued to innovate, compete, and sustain our competitive advantage in the marketplace. Spry team’s vast technical experience helped us identify and gain significant efficiencies across our key internal toolsets, systems infrastructure, and application domains. Opportunities were identified for consolidation and rationalisation of many shared software components across previously siloed internal systems developments and applications. In addition, they were regularly reconfigured for simplification, re-use, and shared services. They were an integral element of our business success.”

Contact Us

Contact Details

We operate out of offices in NSW, Victoria and Queensland Australia to support clients in a number of international locations.

Sydney NSW Australia
Phone: +61 402 010 648
Email: support@sprybts.com