Principal Engineer / CTO

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

  • 10x lift in acquisition. 5% life in NPS. 15% reduction in cost per transaction. Transforming the engineering organization into a 3 high functioning teams. A ‘continuous delivery’ culture. Stabilized DORA metrics. Decoupled the monolith into over 60 services. Guiding high level architecture and integration strategies.
  • Leading the discovery, build and release of a generative ai model. Leveraging historical data to auto generate draft legal advice. Various LLM proof of concepts with complex data sets.
  • Expanding our engineering organization. Lifting our eng team employee satisfication and engagement score by 20%. A process of driving systemic good will and a genuine passion for the business and the customer.
  • Developing and releasing a full stack + multi party fraud detection strategy that detects when a home buying is vulnerable and guidance on how to avoid scammers.

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.

  • 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