Senior Software Engineer

Founding Engineer

AI tender writing platform • Feb 2025 - Present

• Working on all aspects of AI Tender Writer product, developing LLM-based workflows to assist clients in writing tenders
• Implementing prompt engineering and Agile DevOps practices using Python and Django

Software Engineer

Enterprise collaboration software company • Jun 2024 - Dec 2024

• Delivered improvements to company data lake infrastructure
• Worked with Kotlin, Python, Scala, Spark, and Databricks in Agile DevOps environment

Senior Platform Engineer

Global logistics technology company • Oct 2019 - Nov 2023

• Designed and implemented reliable network infrastructure configuration and monitoring system
• Developed zero-touch provisioning, routing, network segmentation, and high availability solutions with automated configuration verification
• Led technical initiatives using Python, Docker, Linux, Ansible, and Microsoft Azure

Senior Software Engineer

Capital markets research centre • Mar 2014 - Jul 2019

• Led team of 3-5 developers delivering research infrastructure for collaborative centre comprising 50 PhD candidates and 26 partners
• Built web-based analytics suite with ETL ingesting over 1TB of data from 200+ markets
• Displayed 100+ metrics of market fairness and efficiency using Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and AWS services

Programmer / Computer Scientist; Owner

Software consultancy • Feb 2013 - Mar 2014

• Founded small programming and computer science consultancy based in Sydney
• Provided software solutions including programming, computer science advice and training

Developer

Open source technology consultancy • May 2012 - Feb 2013

• Created and customised dynamic websites, deployed and updated software for client upskilling
• Contributed to public open source projects using PHP, Python, and various web technologies

Research Engineer

National ICT research centre • Jun 2011 - Dec 2011

• Reduced implementation time from months to days by clarifying requirements on PDF table extraction project
• Spearheaded contribution of functionality to public open source project for clinical systematic reviews

Research Assistant

Major Australian university • 2011

• Collaborated on publication in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
• Contributed to research on proximity-based non-uniform abstractions for approximate planning

Researcher

University biological sciences department • 2008 - 2009

• Modelled conservation and eradication approaches for two case studies involving bird conservation and ant eradication
• Contributed to published research on wildlife management strategies

Conference Systems Manager

Open source technology conference • 2007 - 2008

• Served on conference committee with responsibility for web-based conference management system
• Managed significant attendee-facing web presence for major technology conference