I'm a product-minded engineer who owns things end-to-end. Hire me to take something from a fuzzy idea to a shipped, reliable product. I've been the entire technical team on a production app and the sole feature developer on a live SaaS, so I'm comfortable owning the whole path rather than waiting for a spec.
My natural home is backend and cloud: event-driven, efficient, reliable systems on AWS and GCP/Firebase. But I'm genuinely full-stack, so I can build and ship a whole feature myself.
I do my best work where I care about the problem and I'm trusted to run with it.
I want to own something real. My best work has come when I care about the problem and get to build the whole thing: from figuring out what to make to shipping it. I move fast and have taken ideas from prototype to a working product in days, and MVPs in a couple of weeks.
I'm looking for a team where I'm trusted end-to-end, where the people around me care about the same problem I do, and where being good at the work is actually noticed. I'm a product-minded engineer. I care about the why, not just the ticket. And I'm most alive when the domain genuinely excites me. I'll go a lot deeper on something I find interesting than coast on something I don't.
Not looking for narrow, maintenance-style roles where I'm one cog on a big team with no say in the product. I care about the why, so a place that treats engineers as pure implementers of someone else's spec isn't a fit.
Beyond the engineering, I lead and teach well. I grew my university's robotics club from ~230 to 1,800 members (USYD's second-largest club), recruiting and building the team that kept it running after I left. I still teach engineering students of all disciplines at USYD (450+ so far) alongside my full-time work by choice.
I mention it because the thing I'm proudest of has never been the numbers; it's the people. I work best in small teams where I can build real relationships with the people I'm building for, and I bring that same care to founders and users, not just code.
One month into leading engineering at a startup, I concluded that the app which built on no-code tools over the previous year, could never become a reliable product in the timeline we had. Telling a non-technical founder I wanted to scrap a year of her work was daunting, so instead of just arguing it, I used AI dev tools to build a working, full-code prototype in a single day that already beat what the no-code stack had produced in a year. She was spooked at first, then came around. That app is now live on the App Store and Play Store, and it simply wouldn't exist if I hadn't made that call. I'm proud of it because it wasn't just code: it was seeing that the current path led nowhere, having the conviction to say so, and bringing the alternative instead of the complaint.
Software Engineer & Product Lead
AI-powered productivity software company • Dec 2025 - Present
Designed an end-to-end AI pipeline that turns crude emails into structured records via OpenAI's Responses API.
Built a provider-agnostic LLM evaluation framework benchmarking OpenAI, Claude and Gemini on accuracy, latency and cost, turning model selection from opinion into an evidence-based decision, thus improving client AI adoption.
Benchmarked GPT-5-mini reasoning-effort levels, quantifying a 72% latency cut for a 3.4-point accuracy trade-off.
Built quality-regression checks as shipping gates, so no AI setup change reaches users until it's validated for reliability.
Software Engineer
Enterprise software company • May 2026 - Present
Designed and shipped subscription enforcement across six coordinated backend services to fix a billing loophole where a bypassable client-side check let customers exceed their plan by up to ~$3,000/year of unbilled usage.
Eliminated silent data loss in customer backups (failed rate-limited calls still showing as successful) by adding enhanced rate limit handling, automatic retries, and detailed status reporting, thus reducing rate limit failures by 70%.
Resolved enterprise connectivity failures by provisioning dedicated static IPs that clients can allowlist for secure use.
Built an SSO support portal with instant support agent context, and a knowledge base for quick user query resolution.
Software Engineering InternGlobal professional services and consulting company • Jun 2024 - Dec 2024
Led design and delivery of a serverless API using AWS EventBridge, API Gateway and Lambda that automated organisation-wide OpenSearch access permissions in under 10 seconds, replacing a 1–2 day manual bottleneck.
Automated infrastructure provisioning with CloudFormation & Azure DevOps, reducing manual setup by 80%.
Saved my team 15+ hours monthly for higher-value work by automating repetitive manual tasks with AWS Lambda.
Built real-time monitoring dashboards to give leadership visibility into system health and help ensure 100% uptime.
Casual Academic
Australian research university • Feb 2024 - Present
Taught machine learning in lecture and tutorial settings to 450+ students across engineering disciplines, most with no coding background, earning 95% positive feedback on anonymous surveys I run voluntarily each semester.
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Software Engineering
University of Sydney • Graduated 2025
First Class Honours (Honours WAM 79.2).
Awarded the Engineering Sydney Industry Placement Scholarship (ESIPS) and the Sydney International Student Award.
Standout units: Multi-Disciplinary Engineering (89 HD), Cloud Computing (88 HD), Full Stack (86 HD).
Honours thesis: Precision Irrigation using Federated Learning and MLP networks on Raspberry Pi edge devices — industry-supervised through a global professional services and consulting company under the ESIPS scholarship.
