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Turning ambiguous ideas into shipped products. I'm strongest as a hands-on CTO / technical co-founder type who can own architecture end-to-end (full-stack, cloud, mobile, IoT, embedded) and increasingly AI/LLM-powered systems — RAG, agentic workflows, multimodal models, vector databases and MLOps.
I bring 25+ years of leadership, having scaled teams from zero to 40+, and I'm good at the messy bits: technology strategy, hardware–software integration, startup scaling, risk assessment, and pragmatic AI adoption. Companies should hire me when they need someone who can both set the technical direction and roll up their sleeves to build alongside the team.
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Chief Technology Officer with 25+ years in technology leadership, specialising in taking innovative concepts from idea to market-ready products across AI/GenAI, SaaS, IoT, hardware, and fintech.
Current role: Chief Technology Officer, Storyboarding platform
(Nov 2024 – Present, Sydney)
- Leading technology strategy and development for a rapidly growing storyboarding platform serving 300k+ users and 20k daily website visitors. Integrating LLMs and generative AI (text-to-image, multimodal models) into the product to accelerate visual story creation, and building RAG-based and agentic workflows on top of modern AI infrastructure.
Other current engagement: CEO & Managing Director, Technology consulting firm
(Jul 2023 – Present, Sydney)
- Self-employed consultancy covering people management, project delivery, delivery performance, IT strategy, and advising startups on practical adoption of AI/LLM-powered features, prompt engineering, vector databases, and MLOps best practices.
Previous experience:
- Consulting CTO, Smart helmet manufacturer (Jun – Aug 2023): Led the technology transition during company acquisition, ensuring seamless handover to incoming leadership.
- Chief Technology Officer, Smart helmet manufacturer (Oct 2018 – Jun 2023, 4 yrs 9 mos, Sydney): Built and led a 10-person technical team to deliver the world's first mass-produced ECE-certified smart motorcycle helmet from concept to production in 3 years (company was acquired by major action camera manufacturer in 2024). Drove on-device ML for computer-vision features and sensor-fusion pipelines on embedded hardware.
- Head of Production & Quality, Payment technology company (Apr – Oct 2018, Sydney): Implemented new measures to improve operational efficiency and reduce errors.
- Chief Operations Officer, Payment technology company (Nov 2014 – Dec 2017, Beirut): Led a team of 40, managing core business operations with lead responsibility in planning and strategy development.
- Project Manager, Payment technology company (Aug 2013 – Nov 2014): Handled change requests and technical integration
Core strengths: software architecture, startup technology strategy, hardware–software integration, AI/LLM product integration, and turning complex technical challenges into elegant solutions.
Technical expertise: JavaScript, Python, React, Node.js, AWS, system architecture, API development, IoT systems, machine learning, LLMs and generative AI, RAG, vector databases, prompt engineering, MLOps, full-stack development, mobile applications, and embedded systems.
Leadership capabilities: technology strategy, team management, risk assessment, product development, AI strategy and adoption, startup scaling, cross-functional collaboration, budget management, and vendor relations.
Education
American University of Science and Technology
Masters of Computer Science
Bachelors of Computer Science