Led engagements in senior technical leadership roles:

• CTO (HR SaaS Startup): Development, strategy & sales: AI-enhanced HR SaaS platform; automated B2B outreach sales engine.
• Engineering Manager (NASDAQ-listed Fintech): Delivered fault-free platform transition to offshore teams.
• Platform Tech Lead (Data/ML Scaleup): Directed platform evolution and introduced numerous best practices.
• Principal Engineer (US Healthtech Startup): Built MVP in 6 weeks enabling founder fundraising and enterprise customer acquisition.

• Managed a high-performing team of 5 engineers; led hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and team development.
• Led delivery of Battle Pass system generating >$100M/year in revenue.
• Owned platform architecture (Python, Flask, MySQL, Redis, Celery, AWS) supporting 100k+ CCU in real-time game backend.
• Consistently received the highest rating on the scale at every performance review.

• Initiated Cogent's AI & Machine Learning practice, building a public recommender system demo to drive client acquisition and then implementing an NLP pipeline to automate customer onboarding for a B2B SaaS startup, reducing manual effort by >40%.
• Every client I worked with tried to hire me.

• Seconded from Cogent to upskill in AI/ML.
• Built computer vision prototype converting hand-drawn UIs to code.

• Core contributor; developed secure OAuth2-based Authn/Authz system using JWTs.
• Deepened SDLC, coding, testing, and architecture practices.

• Career pivot into tech.
• Delivered web, cross-platform apps & CMS e-commerce systems under the guidance of a brilliant mentor.

• Reponsible for business case development, budget preparation and reporting to the executive.
• Designed and implemented a budget management framework for the Melbourne School of Land and Environment across 16 stakeholders. Achieved excess annual surplus versus financial targets of >$1m on $47m budget.

• Provided independent oversight and expertise to education sector marketing service provider.
• Strategic guidance, governance and risk oversight for the executive.

• Client facing Management Consulting advice and deliverables in the areas of: Operational and Process Improvement, Strategy, Business Performance Management and Organisational Design.

• Co-founded and ran two boutique investment businesses trading in derivatives and foreign currencies.
• Raised more than $500k in capital from private investors and managed stakeholder relations.

• Management, training and leadership of a team of five departmental staff.
• Major projects delivered include: Business Recovery Plan; a road map to a budget neutral position after years of sustained deficits & Unit Costing Project; methodology to determine the per-subject cost of teaching delivery within the school.

• Graduated top of my year, won just about every prize & scholarship available, whilst also working full time.
• Deakin Scholarship for Excellence, Professor of Information Technology Award, School of Information Technology Award, Patrick Pleass Memorial Award, Australian Computer Society Student Excellence Award, Graduated With Distinction.
• Founding Executive Member (Treasurer) of Deakin Software Engineering Club.

• High Distinction average, multiple academic awards, whilst also working mostly full time.
• CPA Management Accounting Prize, Sothertons Fraud and Forensics Prize.

I stay deeply technical. I have a broad skillset across Full-Stack Web Development, Scalable System Design, Software Architecture, Distributed Systems, Profiling & Performance Optimisation, Cloud Infrastructure, Observability and Monitoring, Analytics, Applied AI/ML & Generative AI.