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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.
Able to work in Australia without visa sponsorship
Requires visa sponsorship to work in Australia
Work experience
Proudest professional achievement
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 a 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 Intern
Global 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.
Education
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 Accenture under the ESIPS scholarship.
