Senior Software Engineer (9 years) specializing in taking AI products from zero to one. I build systems that turn cutting-edge models into real, shipped features used at scale.

2020 — 2024PadletSenior Software Engineer

2020 — 2024

San Francisco, California, United States

The work I am most proud of was to conceptualise and lead the development of almost all AI features at Padlet. I came up with many of the initial ideas and pushed internally to make them happen.

I was also the tech lead on a number of projects:

Creating Padlet's public API

Major rebuilds of the billing system and notification system

Improving the efficiency of the video transcription system

2019 — 2020SpriggySoftware Engineer

2019 — 2020

Sydney, Australia

Spriggy is an Australian Fintech with a Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and PostgreSQL stack.

Led the redesign of the transaction system that slashed time to settle internal transactions by 52% and significantly boosted customer satisfaction.

Set up automated deployment pipelines using Kubernetes in AWS and developed an iOS/Android app in React Native.

Designed and built the solutions of key business objectives, such as major integrations with 3rd party services and a system to construct and deliver weekly spend summaries.

Fixed major production outages under high-pressure conditions as the on-call engineer.

2017 — 2018LeafcutterSoftware Developer

2017 — 2018

Sydney, Australia

Leafcutter is a Digital Agency working with Liquid, PHP, JavaScript, Linux, HTML, CSS and SQL.

Developed many high profile websites including www.rspcansw.org.au, au.yeti.com, www.gisymbol.com

Built custom web applications including a social media website using the Laravel PHP framework.

Performed extensive data management on large SQL databases, managed remote Linux servers during web deployment and updated DNS nameservers.

2016 — 2017Opus International Consultants LimitedSoftware Developer

2016 — 2017

Opus is an international Civil Engineering firm utilizing PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and MySQL.

Developed both backend and frontend systems for the company intranet using the PHP framework CodeIgniter.

Led the creation of a fully featured online quiz system.

Worked on an iPad web app that provided an interactive map for civil engineers to conduct surveys in the field.

Led the development of a high-performance ORM service on data queried from an external API.

2013 — 2015Interchange Inner EastSocial Service Worker

2013 — 2015

Melbourne, Australia

Education

2016 — 2018

University of Sydney

Masters of Professional Engineering (Software)

2016 — 2018

2012 — 2015

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Science - BS

2012 — 2015

Experience+

Education

Masters of Professional Engineering (Software)

Bachelor of Science - BS