Hi, I'm Mitchell

My name is Mitchell Lisle. I'm an Engineering Manager working across data engineering, platform, and governance. Here I write about building data systems, the teams behind them, and the messy politics of technology.

Recent Writing

Designing the Room

The environment you design for your team is not the backdrop to your leadership. It is a large part of the leadership itself.

Why Estimates Always Lie — And What to Do About It

A look at why software estimation is so reliably broken, and a tool I built to make it a little more honest

Mapping Fire: Five Decades of Bushfires in NSW

An interactive dashboard exploring patterns in NSW's fire history since 1970

Too Unique to Hide: Understanding Re-identification Risk in Australia

A new tool that reveals how easily you can be identified from "anonymous" data