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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.

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Australia Post 2023-05-01 — Present

Tech Lead

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

Software Engineer

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

Senior DevOps Engineer

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

Lead Engineer - Cloud

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

Software Engineer

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

Web Developer

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

Web Developer

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

Web Developer & System Admin

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

Information Technology (Double Major)
Bachelor

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