Experience

Building for Resilience, Leading with Context.

The Scale & Strategy Era

Leading organisational growth, navigating M&A, and defining the next generation of fintech and compliance SaaS.

Head of Engineering
Wrkr / PaidRight
2024 - Present

Sydney, Australia

Revolutionised pay compliance by building a high-performing engineering culture. Following the acquisition by Wrkr, I continue to lead the architectural and organisational strategy for the Pay Compliance division, spearheading a fundamental re-platforming toward an architecture designed for high-concurrency and operational resilience.

M&A Integration Engineering Strategy SaaS Scale Team Leadership
Head of Engineering
Douugh
2020 - 2024

Sydney, Australia

Led a dynamic team to deliver a full-featured neobank from concept to global markets. Architected automated savings and intelligent budgeting features while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Fintech APIs System Design Organisational Growth

The Platform & Infrastructure Era

Pioneering cloud-native paradigms and self-service platforms for enterprise organisations.

Consulting Engineer (ASX CHESS Replacement)
ASX (via Industrie&Co)
2019 - 2020

Sydney, Australia

Architected the stream-based UI and backend for Australia's blockchain-based stock clearing replacement. Utilised reactive programming to handle real-time transactional data at scale.

RxJava Blockchain GraphQL React
Cloud Platforms Lead
Domain
2018 - 2019

Sydney, Australia

Defined the direction for the Cloud Platforms team. Implemented a purpose-built Kubernetes platform on EC2 and drove 'SlackOps' initiatives to empower barrier-free developer innovation.

Kubernetes SlackOps Developer Experience (DX)

The Systems & Intelligence Era

Solving high-stakes data challenges in banking, law enforcement, and distributed cloud systems.

Consulting Engineer (Atlassian / PwC / Westpac)
Industrie&Co
2016 - 2020

Sydney, Australia

Solved mission-critical engineering challenges, including Atlassian's core billing refactor, Westpac's privacy-protecting data-matching service, and Google AppEngine microservices for PwC.

Privacy Engineering Microservices Python Java
Senior Software Engineer / Lead
RoZetta Technology
2015 - 2016

Sydney, Australia

Led the technical direction for a petabyte-scale financial big-data platform. Managed requirements analysis and implementation for distributed cloud systems on AWS.

Big Data AWS Cassandra Python
Forward Deployed Engineer
Palantir Technologies
2012 - 2014

Sydney, Australia

Embedded with government and enterprise clients to solve complex data integration challenges. Built high-stakes infrastructure for large-scale data processing and analytics workflows.

Data Integration Java Cassandra Elasticsearch

The DevOps & Transformation Era

Modernising global engineering workflows during the early cloud and agile revolutions.

Software Configuration Manager
Monitise
2008 - 2012

London, UK

Transformed global dev workflows by implementing distributed CI/CD. Orchestrated the transition from CVS to Git/Gerrit and pioneered AWS EC2 adoption.

CI/CD Git Migration AWS Pioneer
Software Configuration Manager / Analyst
Royal Bank of Scotland
2005 - 2008

London / Edinburgh

Implemented continuous integration for wealth-management portals and managed high-availability Java/Websphere applications in a global banking environment.

Websphere CI/CD Production Support
Java Team Lead / Developer
GUI Computing / OrderMate / Pracom
2000 - 2005

Melbourne, Australia

Early career focus on building Java development environments from scratch, designing telephony products, and developing core offline billing engines.

Java POS Systems Telephony