Gambling, military/defense, medium/big corporates with a lot of management layers and politics.
Head of Engineering (IC + Engineering Lead)
Early-stage legal tech startup building a client intake platform for law firms • Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
Brought in to re-architect and productionise an early-stage product and establish engineering standards across the team.
Achievements
• Designed, implemented and shipped a multi-tenant end-user privacy solution
• Built an e2e security testing suite across all routes and hardened authentication/authorisation across the platform; defined the target architecture and guidelines for the long-term implementation
• Created a standard pattern for dependency injection and testing, with documentation and agent skills to help LLMs apply it consistently
Day to day
• Owned the technical roadmap and architecture; refactored and productionised early-stage code, authoring, reviewing and evaluating refactoring tasks using LLMs
• Mentored a team of developers on LLM best practices and workflows, UI testing, directory structure, and authentication/authorisation for highly sensitive end-user data
Lead Software Engineer (IC)
Australian R&D studio inventing and shipping AI-powered software, products and automation • Oct 2025 - Apr 2026
Worked on a medico-legal reporting platform for specialists assessing workers' compensation claims: processing documents, screenshots and scans into LLM-generated summaries with citations, refined by specialists through LLM-assisted editing, then rendered into a final report.
Achievements
• Designed, implemented and evaluated a verifiable citation system for LLM agents to reference source documents
• Built programmatic verification of LLM outputs in TypeScript and an evaluation pipeline in Python using DeepEval (G-Eval, Relevance, Faithfulness metrics), plus meta-evaluations that score the G-Eval criteria themselves
• Built an evaluation dataset to test citation accuracy, using automated checks and multiple AI models to verify source references and relevance to claims
• Rearchitected output generation from a single large output to one section at a time, so each section gets a focused prompt, improving quality
Day to day
• Built an evaluation dataset visualisation tool using Textual to comb through thousands of lines of output and verify pipeline correctness
• Built markdown rich-text editors for medical professionals in the loop
• Created docx renderers for the final reports
Staff Software Engineer (IC + Team Lead)
Browser-based GIS/3D platform • Jul 2023 - Oct 2025
Senior Software Engineer (IC)
Browser-based GIS/3D platform • Jun 2022 - Jul 2023
Achievements
• Led the design, security review, implementation and rollout of an authentication solution across dozens of microservices written in different languages and maintained by different teams
• Co-rewrote a legacy Ruby application in TypeScript with the team and retired the original
• Introduced developer tools for integration testing microservices or frontend apps locally against complex multi-service environments like k8s, without deploying
• Owned the GPU workload orchestration engine: improved performance and reliability under increasing load, cut pull request checks from half an hour to 5 minutes, and built a delivery pipeline that releases any monorepo component independently
Day to day
• Drove the migration of self-managed on-prem workloads to on-prem k8s with cross-zone availability
• Researched and architected the next-generation orchestration engine
• Promoted best practices and upskilled developers in developer tooling, monorepo design, unit and integration testing, AI and LLMs
Head of Engineering (IC + Engineering Lead)
Startup building an entertainment platform for remote and hybrid teams • Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Achievements
• Introduced TypeScript on both BE and FE and drove the conversion of 64% of the legacy JavaScript codebase, building the foundation for future products
• Implemented Connect product - a Slack bot to interact with users' teams
• Led the team to implement Check-in product and Billing via Stripe for the entire platform
• Optimised BE code build pipelines by code-splitting GCP functions using rollup, significantly reducing cold start times and HTTP 500 error rates
Day to day
• Introduced contract-first developer practices
• Polished CI/CD pipelines and implemented conditional deploys of only affected functions/front-ends
• Interviewed potential hires, mentored engineers, reviewed pull requests, architected new systems and contributed to key technical and product decisions
Senior Frontend Engineer (IC)
Global design platform • May 2020 - Jun 2021
Core video team: improving reliability, performance and memory usage of video features across Web and hybrid Mobile apps.
Achievements
• Built a reliability dashboard for video features and used it to drive reliability improvements
• Contributed to the core editor team's code to optimise memory consumption and noticeably reduced crash rate on iOS devices
• Introduced new performance metrics such as FPS, with automated measurement and tracking over time
• Created A/B testing tooling to compare CPU, memory and FPS optimisations and distinguish genuine performance improvements from measurement noise
Founding Engineer (IC + Architecture)
AI concierge startup • Nov 2018 - May 2020
One of two founding engineers; owned the event-driven architecture, audio processing server, human-in-the-loop UI, conversation event pipelines, CI/CD and infrastructure.
Achievements
• Shipped a functioning MVP in 4 months
• Designed and built a distributed hybrid cloud/on-premise real-time event-driven platform
• Researched and designed algorithms that combine cloud and on-premise speech-to-text models to improve transcription results
• Built real-time audio processing, speech synthesis, real-time messaging, distributed performance profiling and event tracing, and an NLP intent-response engine
Senior Consultant (IC + Team Lead)
Award-winning Australian IT consultancy • Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
Consulted across a major bank, a telecommunications company and a retail business in Dubai - React Native, iOS, and platform work. Worked in small teams as a senior contributor and as an embedded tech lead in clients' teams.
Earlier career in consultancies
Software consultancy companies focusing on .NET and C# • May 2005 - Oct 2016
Roles as Junior Developer, Senior Developer and Tech Lead.
BSc in Mathematics and System Programming (Faculty of Computer Science and Cybernetics, Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Modelling)
Kazan State University • 2001 - 2006
