Senior Software Engineer with a passion for technology across software, infrastructure, operations and networking. I build collaborative, trust-based teams and promote a culture of learning through mentorship. I focus on automation, simplicity and DevOps principles to improve practices, tools and processes. I bring clarity, consistency and technical leadership that delivers business value.
Australia Post 2023-05-01 — Present
Lead a cross-functional DevOps-focused team delivering serverless applications with strong test automation, CI/CD and observability. Mentor engineers, refine delivery practices and shape technical strategy and support models.
Highlights
- Mentored engineers with no prior cloud or DevOps experience to develop skills in CI/CD, infrastructure as code and observability
- Implemented device authentication in the Electron POS application using AWS-native services, enhancing security across the retail network
- Architected and delivered resilient async applications for integrating multiple legacy and cloud-based systems, ensuring reliability and fault tolerance
Australia Post 2021-07-29 — 2023-05-01
Built integration middleware using serverless functions, APIs and queues to transform and enrich backend data in a DevOps-driven team.
Highlights
- Delivered serverless blue-green deployments with canary rollout strategies for safe and automated production releases
- Enriched automated deployment messages by integrating EventBridge with CloudFormation events to improve operational visibility
- Assessed, selected and implemented infrastructure-as-code security scanning tools in CI pipelines to enforce compliance and code quality
- Built BFF services using BDD principles to ensure reliable test coverage, safe refactoring and long-term maintainability.
- Implemented consumer and provider Pact tests to ensure reliable API contracts across systems
Qsic 2021-04-27 — 2021-07-23
Owned and scaled AWS infrastructure across accounts, regions and domains. Defined best practices, modernised pipelines and mentored teams on DevOps adoption.
Highlights
- Set up and integrated SSO across the AWS Organisation to improve security and simplify access management
- Designed and implemented a new AWS account structure and DNS strategy across multiple business domains, aligning with security and scalability needs
- Rebuilt critical infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code to support a clean, well-governed multi-account architecture
Sportsbet 2019-07-01 — 2021-04-15
Supported delivery teams through strategic cloud enablement, platform tooling, governance and automation.
Highlights
- Represented Sportsbet in the AWS Cloud Alliance (formerly Cloud Warriors), advocating engineering needs and sharing expertise
- Developed automated monthly patching solutions for EC2 instances to maintain security compliance
- Reduced AWS spend year-on-year despite growing infrastructure usage through resource optimisation and policy enforcement
- Standardised CloudWatch dashboards across teams to improve monitoring consistency and operational awareness
- Designed secure, reusable CloudFormation templates for provisioning compliant infrastructure at scale
- Built a self-service tool enabling timed EC2 and RDS shutdowns after business hours to control costs
- Developed a monorepo housing standardised CI/CD pipelines, shared infrastructure modules and internal tooling
- Maintained a reliable Jenkins server for automation workflows, including patching, plugin updates and job templating
Sportsbet 2015-07-01 — 2019-07-01
Worked on the mobile frontend in a cross-functional agile team. Contributed to AWS migration, infrastructure and automation.
Highlights
- Key contributor in Sportsbet's AWS migration, deploying some of the first customer-facing workloads to the cloud
- Implemented blue-green deployments for ECS-based services to reduce downtime and enable rapid rollback
- Built IVRS-driven betting capabilities for live sports, significantly reducing time to place in-play bets
- Developed a C# desktop application (screen pop) used by customer service agents to streamline support workflows
- Participated in company and departmental hack days (e.g. InfraHack) to innovate on internal tooling and process improvements
Arkade Digital 2014-03-01 — 2015-07-01
Delivered Magento-based e-commerce solutions and POS/ERP integrations for a major client.
Highlights
- Built a responsive, multi-region Magento platform integrated with the client's ERP system for seamless inventory and order management
- Developed in-store pickup functionality within the Magento storefront to support omnichannel retail
- Contributed to the design and development of Arkade's customer loyalty platform
Salsa Digital 2012-04-01 — 2014-03-01
Specialised in Magento development while also working on Drupal, WordPress and Joomla sites.
Highlights
- Delivered projects for clients across diverse industries, balancing customisation and performance
- Upskilled through a mentorship program with Aligent, a specialist Magento consulting agency
- Earned Magento certification to formalise platform expertise
- Worked with performance and caching tools including Varnish, Redis, Memcached and CDN integrations
Visual Domain 2010-11-01 — 2012-04-01
Enhanced domain.com.au video integration and built iPhone apps, websites and microsites.
Highlights
- Developed white-label iPhone applications using Appcelerator Titanium for various real estate agencies
- Built an automated microsite generation system to rapidly deploy templated websites for client campaigns
- Administered on-prem RAID-based media servers and managed tape backup processes to ensure data durability
RMIT University, Melbourne 2006-01-01 — 2009-06-01
Courses
- Major - Web Systems
- Major - Application Programming
Software
- C#
- CSS
- Electron
- HTML
- Java
- Javascript
- Node.js
- PHP
- Pact
- Python
- React
- SQL
- Typescript
DevOps
- Akamai
- Ansible
- Bash
- Docker
- GNU make
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Jenkins
- Linux
- Packer
- Puppet
- Vagrant
- WSL
- Windows
AWS
- API Gateway
- Athena
- CloudFormation
- CloudFront
- CloudTrail
- CloudWatch
- DynamoDB
- EC2
- ECS
- ElastiCache
- EventBridge
- IAM
- Lambda
- RDS
- S3
- SNS
- Step Functions
- VPC
- X-Ray