I'm looking for early-stage teams (Seed/Series A) that have built a great product but are starting to hit technical scaling walls. I operate as a Staff Product Engineer or Technical Advisor and I'm open to full-time or fractional roles.
I work best at the intersection of product strategy and technical execution. Since I can also step into a Product Manager role, I help close the gap between an ambitious product vision and the actual reliable technology needed to support it. I usually come in when the "move fast and break things" phase starts slowing a team down. I build the lightweight technical foundations, like automated testing, smooth release processes, and safe AI guardrails, that let a small engineering team figure out exactly what to build and then ship it reliably at speed.
Industries: High-stakes or regulated domains (HealthTech, FinTech, B2B SaaS) where reliability actually matters and the business is solving a real problem.
Feature Factories: Roles where you just mechanically churn through predefined tickets without any ability to influence the product direction or understand the "why". Big-Corp Bureaucracy or Metrics Theater: Startups pretending to be enterprises. I build pragmatic systems that enable speed, not heavy corporate processes. Ego-Driven Cultures: I need a "Data over Ego" environment. We won't align if founders are looking for a cheerleader rather than a truth-seeking technical partner. Pure AI Hype: Companies wanting to bolt on AI features as fast as possible without caring about making them reliable, safe, and free from hallucinations.
I am a Staff Product Engineer and Systems Architect with 20+ years of experience connecting product vision with technical execution. I've worked across hyper-growth scale-ups, regulated enterprises, and top-tier tech companies.
Technical Advisor & AI Systems Lead
Healthcare voice AI startup
• Hardened a hallucinating healthcare voice AI prototype into a reliable and production-ready clinical system. I built the technical guardrails and complex patient workflows needed to make the AI safe for real-world medical use.
Staff Software/Quality Engineer
Australian banking institution
• Modernised the bank's payments platform and built automated testing environments. This cut the time it took to test and deploy new features from days of manual work down to just 2 minutes, proving that teams can move fast even in highly regulated environments.
Engineering Manager, Platform
Global deployment automation company
• Built the company's first internal platform team during a period of hyper-growth. I overhauled the systems engineers used to build and release software, cutting build times in half and saving the company over $500K USD a year.
Senior Software Engineer
Global technology and cloud services company
• Led reliability initiatives for cloud storage product serving over 100 million users, reducing crash rates by more than 90%. I also built the automated systems that tested data updates for mapping and transit services.
I step into complex environments, diagnose the structural bottlenecks, and build the pragmatic foundations that allow small engineering teams to ship features rapidly without breaking the product.
Doctor of Philosophy (Bioinformatics) Macquarie University, 2004-2005 (Incomplete)
Bachelor of Science (Computing Science - First Class Honours) The University of NSW, 2003
Bachelor of Science (Molecular Biotechnology) Sydney University, 2000–2002
