Engineering Leader/CTO - Incubation Specialist

Engineering leader specialising in incubation, AI driven products and turning early ideas into real systems.
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Status
Actively looking
Not looking
Not looking
Open to new opportunities
Location
Adelaide
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Open to relocating
Commitment
Full-time, Casual / Contract / Part-time, Join as a startup co-founder
Availability from time of offer
In 1-2 months
Development experience
7+ years
Top 3 languages or frameworks
TypeScript, C#, React
Also knows
Python, Azure, AWS
Preferred work environment
Hybrid, Fully remote, In the office
Strengths
I am good at taking early, ambiguous problems, identifying customer paint points and designing solutions. Equally comfortable working both at low levels on code and talking to customers, leadership, etc.
Interested in working involving
I'm interested in getting back to my startup roots and I'm looking for a hands on CTO role or similar. I would consider fractional CTO, Engineering lead or founding engineer roles.
Not interested in work involving

Other information
I relocated back to Australia mid 2023 and kept the same role at Microsoft. I wake up every day at 5am to work with the team in the US and I am ready to get back to a more typical routine. I have seen quite a bit during my time in Silicon Valley and would like to contribute to the growth of companies in Australia.
Able to work in Australia without visa sponsorship
Requires visa sponsorship to work in Australia

Pay expectations

Full-time
$
300000
per year
Casual / Contract
$
300
per hour
Pay is negotiable in exchange for equity
Pay is negotiable in exchange for equity
Pay is not negotiable in exchange for equity
Open to volunteering or working for equity only
Not interested in volunteering or working for equity only if joining as a co-founder

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Work experience

Proudest professional achievement
In addition to building the system that is responsible for AI dataset acquisition and distribution at Microsoft where I discovered the problem, hired the team, designed the process I have been a specialist at taking nascent problem spaces and solving them using software. Most recently this has been AI powered codebase understanding that integrates LLM into the stack in a way that is end user facing.

I'm a software engineer and product builder with approximately 20 years of experience designing and shipping complex software systems across cloud platforms, developer tooling, and AI-driven products.

Currently working at a major technology corporation as a Principal Engineering Manager, focused on AI-based code understanding and agent-driven development workflows. Much of this work explores how software teams build and operate systems when AI becomes part of the development process.

A large part of my career has involved early-stage product work—taking new ideas from concept to working systems and helping teams figure out what actually works in practice. Before my current role, I held senior technical positions in startups across Australia and the United States, including CTO and architecture positions where I helped design and build large-scale platforms and developer tools.

Outside of software, I spent nearly a decade as General Manager of a martial arts studio in California, running the day-to-day operations of the business until its sale in 2023. That experience gave me a strong appreciation for building systems that work not just technically, but operationally—for real customers and real businesses.

Today I'm particularly interested in how AI is changing the way software teams design systems, write code, and operate production environments.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Software Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia).
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