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

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