MISSION HISTORY · SINCE 2016

Work

A decade of shipping, newest first.

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2022 — NOWHead of Development · AppNativeRun development at a Melbourne UX and app agency serving clients in Australia and the USA. Primary contact for hard technical questions across projects, hands-on full stack and DevOps work, and internal talks on cloud architecture, security, and testing.
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2021 — 2022Technical Architect · AppNativeFull-stack design of several mobile and web applications. Planned cloud architectures with clients and BAs, owned security, compliance, and technology selection, and managed specialists across frontend, backend, design, and QA. Day to day: Python, GCP, Redis, Postgres, Elastic, Bitbucket pipelines.
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2020 — 2021Technical Team Lead · AppNativeLed the team on an established product with a Python and Postgres backend and React Native front end. Ran sprints, retros, and the client relationship; re-architected the backend to scale to thousands of active users.
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2019 — 2020Head of Development · SUBCONNECTArchitected and built the core product for Australia's first verification-focused construction community network. Assembled and led the dev team, set up the agile process and CI/CD. Flask, MySQL, React on auto-scaling AWS, with Sendgrid, Twilio, Auth0, and Australian government API integrations.
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2018 — 2019Computer Repair Technician · CompuhelpSub-contract hardware and network work for small businesses and consumers: network troubleshooting, hardware installs and upgrades, enterprise email configuration, and ransomware recovery.
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2017 — 2019Freelance Web Developer · FreelanceSupported software teams across Australia by phone, remote, and on site. Delivered e-commerce stores, business websites, and cloud infrastructure fixes across a range of industries.
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2016 — 2017Software Engineer Praktikant · Rolls-RoyceFull-stack intern in Dahlewitz, Germany, building big-data visualisation, report search, and knowledge management tools for aerospace engineers. Built the first prototype of Yocova, a data exchange platform later deployed globally to partners including Singapore Airlines.
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2014 — 2016Co-Founder · Inverse StudiosCo-founded an app development company with an animator and shipped our game ArrowTale on Android and iOS.

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Certifications

MONASH UNIVERSITY · 2014 — 2018Bachelor of Computer Science

Computer science with a minor in Advanced Computation, alongside a lot of competitive computing.

COMPTIASecurity+

Core security skills: identifying threats and vulnerabilities, risk management, and intrusion detection.

GOOGLE CLOUDProfessional Cloud Architect

Designing, building, and running secure, scalable, cost-effective solutions on Google Cloud.

MONASH UNIVERSITY · 2014 — 2018

Bachelor of Computer Science

Awarded a Bachelor of Computer Science with a minor in Advanced Computation, studying Information Technology at Monash University from 2014 to 2018.

Activities and societies: captain of the Monash CYSCA cyber security team, member of the Monash ICPC competitive programming team, vice president of Monash Kickboxing, and resident of Richardson Halls.

COMPTIA

Security+

Earners of the CompTIA Security+ certification have the knowledge and skills necessary to perform core security functions required of any cybersecurity role.

Security+ professionals know how to identify and address potential threats, attacks and vulnerabilities, and have established techniques in risk management, risk mitigation, threat management and intrusion detection.

GOOGLE CLOUD

Professional Cloud Architect

A Professional Cloud Architect leverages Google Cloud technologies to design, develop, and manage robust, secure, scalable, efficient, cost-effective, highly available, and flexible solutions that drive business objectives. Proficient in enterprise cloud strategy, solution design, workload migration, deployment and orchestration, optimisation, and architectural best practices, including multitiered distributed applications across legacy, multicloud, or hybrid environments.

The certification is grounded in the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework and its pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance optimisation, cost optimisation, and sustainability.

The exam assesses the ability to design and plan a cloud solution architecture, manage and provision infrastructure, design for security and compliance, analyse and optimise technical and business processes, manage implementations, and ensure solution and operations excellence.