Futurist, father, skeptic, biohacker & entrepreneur
I am a passionate engineer and leader with more than a decade of commercial experience developing software, building teams, establishing standards & delivering solutions. I love finding pragmatic and adaptive solutions to the most complex and difficult problems in the world, growing with a team I care about, and seeing our hard work being appreciated by customers “out in the wild”.
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BSci (applied), 2000
Swinburne University of Technology
MBA, In Progress
Swinburne University of Technology
We’re on a mission to democratize banking and make the world financially healthier. Taking an AI-first approach to helping people spend wisely, save more and build wealth.
Douugh is a different kind of banking, providing real-time insights and assistance via AI-powered account management, a single view of all supported asset and credit lines, and tools for creating financial wellbeing. As a development lead, I’m coding, designing and scaling our systems and infrastructure to deliver real value and delight our growing user-base of happy Douugh customers. And there’s so much more to come!
As the technical team lead, I helped set the direction of the Cloud Platforms team. We provide robust and intelligent platform solutions to empower barrier-free development and innovation for our internal customers at Domain. Whilst with Domain I:
Delivering faster, easier, scalable and secure software solutions for start-ups, disruptors and technology companies, whilst helping make our engineering practice the best in the world. I&Co is a technology venturing company, forging partnerships with our clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions.
Engineering is in my DNA, with a long history of polyglot software development (Java, Python, Go, etc), cloud-focused devops and agile practices, and I bring experience and near-limitless enthusiasm to the difficult problems facing organisations and entrepreneurs today.
I have completed short and long-term engagements, primarily in Python and Java, with clients including the ASX, Atlassian, CompareAsia and Westpac Databank.
Applying effective analysis, design, programming and testing skills to produce software systems, while assisting with the technical direction of projects.
As a senior software engineer and lead, I have been responsible for requirements analysis, design and implementation of distributed, cloud-based (Amazon AWS) software systems, mostly in Python. I have also line-managed four technical resources, and provided technical guidance and leadership across the life of a project.
Be agile, adaptive, technically brilliant – and deliver.
As a forward-deployed engineer, it was my job to solve “the world’s hardest problems”:
I have built and run a deployment all the way from the initial scoping to hardware installation, system integration, custom code and ongoing maintenance, using a combination of Java, Oracle, Elasticsearch, Cassandra and Gradle.