"Brendan's role is essential to ensuring we are able to effectively bridge the gap between sales and delivery, and maintain our ability to execute with exceptional results as we scale, said Patient Zero CEO Paul Briggs.

"Key to this will be his ability to sustainably scale our way of working, ensuring that we continue to empower our people to innovate and deliver exceptional work for our customers.

"Brendan is ideally positioned to help us sustainably accelerate our growth to Sydney and beyond."

Homann has been a principal consultant at Patient Zero since 2015.

He previously worked as a product manager at Bilateral, and as a business analyst at RACQ, naus Waste Intelligence and Mandalay Technologies.

Homann is also CEO of andme.com.au and Senpai Digital, and group company secretary of Voluntae Group.

He golds a bachelor's degree in IT from Queensland University of Technology.

"Since we established the business around teams-as-a-service, we've delivered hundreds of full stack cloud native applications, enabling everything from patient engagement platforms to waste management solutions and insurance technology," said Homann.

"Through leveraging site reliability engineering principles and automation, our whole-of-lifecycle managed services approach is able to proactively address 60% of issues before they affect a customer, focusing on maintaining applications - not patching bugs as they appear.

"We've recently signed a number of managed services clients, both for existing applications they own and new applications we've built, who are excited by our unique approach to supporting their applications, and the incredible team at PZ available to support them."

Other recent promotions at Patient Zero include Demelza Green to principal experience manager, and Josh McCure and Emilien Perico to developer custodians.