Graduate Certificate

BSc (Hons)

CultureMoves is an early-stage startup that brings affordable culture coaching to small businesses. 

- Navigate the treacherous technological terrain of early-stage ventures and give them the best chance of success.  
- Review and implement technologies and cloud services to give the strong early momentum 
Interview and hire engineering talent
- Designed high-level roadmaps, architecture, system design and user flows.

Keywords: Node.js, React, AWS, Architecture, Processes, Technical Strategy, Advisory, BigQuery, AWS Amplify

Technical Advisor

Esper is an early-stage deep-tech startup building on-orbit Earth observation and remote-sensing hardware and software. The team is building a multi-spectral imagine device scheduled to be launched in a ride-share mission later this year.

- Coached the team on software engineering practices and how to minimise risk
- Reviewed and revised the technical roadmap to achieve hard deadlines
- Thinking ahead on how to shift-left testing and systems integration work

Keywords: Bash, Linux, Docker, Space, Earth Observation, Remote Sensing, Hyperspectral Imaging, SaaS, AWS, Architecture, Processes, Technical Strategy, Advisory

Technology Advisor

Whispir provides communication capabilities to a number of global tier-1 customers and so reliability and performance are key aspects of its product offering.  

- Scaled teams to ~60 engineers to properly support strategic efforts and team members
- Transformed engineering into a cross-functional “squad” model and introduced an engineering management layer to support
- Team autonomy by delegating authority to teams so they can focus on outcomes, not output
In just a few short months, significant improvement in culture continues to evolve rapidly. 
- As the product strategy refines and course-corrects, the engineering team is capable of adapting with agility.

Keywords: Team Leadership, Java, Legacy Applications, Organisational Structure, Node.js, React, AWS, Architecture, Processes, Compliance & Governance, Technical Strategy, Python, Data Science, Data Engineering, Data Lake, Machine Learning, AI, SaaS

Director Of Engineering

Airwallex wanted to bring its growing array of services to mobile users.

- Built a brand new, greenfields mobile engineering capability from the ground up
- Designed an overall strategy for mobile including, product exploration, API design and architectural roadmap, rapid prototyping and delivery.  
- Worked with Talent to write job descriptions and hire team members.

Keywords: Team Leadership, iOS, Android, Architecture, Swift UI, Kotlin, API Design, GraphQL, REST, AWS Infrastructure, Organisational Structure, Technical Strategy

Engineering Lead

LaunchHUB Program Member

Kozai is a managed Data Science Platform in your Browser. We're on a mission to bring cutting-edge data science to the masses at an affordable price and within a few clicks. Kozai provides supercomputing capabilities, right within your web browser. Providing and supporting the latest and greatest in Data Science tooling, Kozai aims to make it faster, easier and cheaper to enable your data science team. 

- Designed and delivered a product to market within a couple of months
- Archived revenue within a few months with demand to scale up
- Kozai was accepted into the RMIT Activator LaunchHUB and Hoist AI incubator programmes and incubated by Eliiza/Mantel Group

Keywords: Python, PyData, Dask and Nvidia RAPIDS frameworks on CPU and GPU, Kubernetes, AWS, SaaS, Auth0, R, Jupyter, VSCode, Product Development, Technical Strategy, Data Engineering, AI, Machine Learning, Scientific Computing, Architecture, Technical Strategy

Co-Founder

Consulting in the AI, machine learning and data science space with various companies in Melbourne.  

- Live video-processing using machine vision on mobile devices using MobileNet with SSD, signal graph processing and time-based error correction
- Smart document scanning of both typed and hand-written words using neural networks 
- Kubernetes-based data science environments for clustered machine learning 
- High performance, embarrassingly parallel data processing using AWS & GCP 
- Employed various machine learning libraries such as tensorflow, pytorch, scikit and xgboost
- Hiring a diverse and reputable team of data scientists, data engineers and ML engineers.  
- Managing development and performance of team members
- Establishing new strategic products (see Kozai)

Key Project: Future Fund
- Working with leadership to build a new technical strategy
- Delivered a bespoke and scalable elasticsearch implementation in AWS
- Reduced time for critical sanctions list ingestion from days t

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

iFlix is a video streaming platform servicing the emerging markets of SE Asia, Middle-East and Africa.

- Recruited and built a world-class mobile engineering team from the ground up
- Adopted existing web-based mobiel app and planned and executed a high-quality, cross-platform, native rebuild 
- The team also built Android and Apple TV apps to bring the experience to more platforms and more users. 
- Worked closely with our team in Malaysia to make sure we incorporated regional and cultural sensitivity into the product UX and avoid a western-centric design mindset. 
- Built a performant, serverless, horizontally-scalable transcoding platform that supported a variety of DRMs (Widevine, Apple Fairplay) and streaming protocols (MPEG-DASH, HLS).  
- Worked on a large scale telemetry capture and aggregation system that Werner Vogels featured at Re:invent.

Keywords: Node.js, iOS, Android, Apple TV, startup, Team Leading, Technical Strategy, AWS, Data Engineering, API Design, DevOps, DRM, H

Software Engineer

Technical Consultant

Technical Advisor @ Agtuary, Esper, Inflamed &  Bluejay

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