Chief Engineer / Head of Engineering

CommSee 2.0 / CommBank, Sydney. May 2025 - Present

  • Platform Engineering. Leading the build and delivery strategy of CBA’s internal developer experience. Leading 4 squads. Guiding a 3 year gropu wide roadmap to enable all Business Units to effectively build independent nextJS applications into a unified CommSee 2.0 experience.
  • Upskilling engineering culture, collaboration and enabling continuous delivery.

NodeJS, React, C#, NextJS, AWS, OpenAI, Terraform, Python, SQL, Athena, OpenSearch, RedShift

Principal Engineer / CTO

Home-In / x15 / CommBank, Sydney. SEP 2021 - Present

  • Growth Engineering. 10x lift in acquisition. 5% life in NPS. 15% reduction in cost per transaction.
  • Leading the discovery, build and release of a generative ai model.
  • Expanding and up lifting our eng team employee satisfication score by 20%.
  • Full stack + multi party fraud detection strategy. Detecting when a home buying transaction falls vulnerable.

NodeJS, React, React Native, Splunk, Python, JavaScript, SRE, Terraform, REST APIs, AWS, Swift, Kotlin, Cucumber, OLLAMA, OpenAI, SQL

Senior Engineering Manager

Atlassian, Sydney. Mar 2021 - Aug 2021.

  • Platform Engineering. Scaling the Atlassian Media API beyond 60 million requests per day (500k uploads, 5 petabytes) whilst reducing monthly AWS costs from $91k to $62k.
  • Rolling out two new AWS regions (Sydney, US East) to improve network latency across Jira and Confluence.
  • Co-founder and monthly facilitator of the Sydney Software Engineering Managers Meetup. We are elevating the role of management in tech, cultivating exceptional human-centric leadership skills.

JavaScript, Node, TypeScript, React, Splunk, SQL, SRE, Terraform, RESTful APIs, AWS, S3, DynamoDB, NoSQL, and EC2/Micros, Shell Scripting.

Staff Engineering / Senior Engineering Manager

Stash, New York. Nov 2017 - Dec 2020.

  • Scaling the Stash Home API to address SRE issues and scale from 1 million to 5 million concurrent users.
  • Recruiting, onboarding, coaching and supporting a growing team from 30 engineers to 120 engineers.
  • Consolidating our ab testing platform across all 12 squads, increasing new product experiments by 400%.
  • Successfully coaching six new project leads and two new engineering managers.
  • Establishing an on-call 24x7 roster adopted by six teams handling sev 1 - sev 3 outages, reducing repeat incidents by 12%.

Ruby, Scala, Swift, Kotlin, Kafka, Terraform, JavaScript, Postgres, SOA, TDD, RESTful APIs, Security, Heroku, AWS.

Staff Engineer

Pivotal, New York. Nov 2016 - Nov 2017.

AngularJS, Springboot MVC, Java, Kotlin, C#, dotnet, SQL, XP, JPA, SQL, Cloud Foundry.

Senior Engineer

Hillary Clinton 2016 Campaign, New York. Aug 2016 - Nov 2016.

Javascript, NodeJs, d3, React, WebDriverIO, Travis, Git, OAuth, ES6, Webpack.

Senior Engineer

Telstra Purple, Sydney. Aug 2014 - Nov 2016.

JavaScript, C#, Knockout, Selenium, Scrum, SQL, d3, Data science, Azure.

Senior Engineer

Copyright, Sydney. Jan 2010 - 2014.

Bootstrap, JQuery, Webforms, Entity Framework, SQL Server 2008, HSBC Payment Gateway.

Senior Engineer

British Heart Foundation, London. Jan 2007 - Jan 2009.

.Net, SQL, Javascript, CSS, HTML.

Junior Engineer

Legion Interactive, Sydney. Jan 2002 - Jan 2006.

.Net, SQL, HTML.

Senior Engineer / Founder

Australian Building Greenhouse Rating, Sydney. Jan 1999 - Jan 2002.

.Net, SQL, HTML.

Education & Certifications