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Hornsby, Nsw, Au

Currently leading a talented team to develop products celebrating neurodiversity.Key Responsibilities & Achievements:Architected and implemented the full stack from GKE clusters through apps and CI/CD pipelines, utilising Kubernetes, Docker, and GitLab.Led the development of AI-driven features using LangChain and OpenAI:- AI-generated clinical session summaries and NDIS-compliant program plans.- AI-powered therapy chat with context-aware video recommendations (RAG approach).- AI insights and recommendations based on user emotional and behavioural logs.- Semantic search powered by AI for in-app resources and support materials.Ensured production-readiness of AI products, focusing on security (DevSecOps pipelines), observability, and scalability:- Full stack observability: centralised logging, monitoring, and alerting for AI workflows.- Ensured secure and resilient deployment through Kubernetes for orchestration, automated backups with Velero, and implemented security measures such as Secrets Manager for managing sensitive data and malware scanning.- Microservices-based architecture for AI workflows, improving performance, resilience and MTTR.Collaborated with Melbourne University on incorporating a diagnostic tool for autism within the app.Built and scaled a lean, high-performing engineering team.Deployed generative AI features on a regular cadence to thousands of active users.

Bootstrapped a startup enabling rock climbers to connect, discover and share their climbing experiences, already with 1k gyms, 10k crags and 1 million routes.Tech Stack: React Native, Google Cloud Platform, NodeJS and BigQuery for training analytics.* https://roks.app *

Barangaroo, New South Wales, Au

Agile Coach for the BT Digital and Innovation group. Part of the leadership team, and responsible for leading several Agile and DevOps change initiatives across all teams within the group.* Set-up the BT Engineering meet-ups to encourage sharing and collaboration between all engineers in BT.* Created a “Shift Test Left” group to solve BT Digital test automation challenges.* Advised the CIO, Linda da Silva, on portfolio decisions for the BT Digital and Innovation group.* Defined the test automation strategy in partnership with the test lead for BT Digital, using technologies such as React, Typescript, React Testing library, Jest, & Jenkins; with Java Spring Boot for Microservices & RESTful API’s.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

The Agile Coach for seven Scrum teams within the Institutional Business Banking Digital platform. Led a set of DevOps initiatives to encourage close collaboration between delivery and operations teams, while introducing tools that support a more automated approach to operations. Provided long-term guidance and mentoring to the leadership group and Scrum Masters within IBB Digital.* Worked alongside ThoughtWorks training and coaching teams in CD and XP, using AngularJS, Protractor & Jenkins. * Promoted into the CommBiz Leadership team to drive agility and engineering maturity.* Inspired and led a team to the finals of the ES hackathon.* Spoke on DevOps at Agile Australia.

Boston, Ma, Us

Around one hundred people were carved out of the company and tasked with creating a startup managed solution business with a new cloud platform. I initially led and was accountable for one team, then expanded to build an additional three teams alongside an NTT Data account manager. Over time, I also assumed engineering manager responsibilities.* IaaS platform built using CloudStack, Java, Spring, Javascript, Ruby, PostgreSQL and TeamCity.* Trained developers in BDD, TDD and Continuous Delivery, which resulted in a one click deployment into production offline and a one click cutover to live; in an ISO 27001 compliant environment.* Promoted DevOps approach ensuring that the Spanish and UK teams shared operational ownership.

Middlesex, England, Gb

Helped build a digital platform for sky.com, serving 10 million customers, using Javascript, Java, Spring, PostreSQL and Jenkins.* Started as the first hire and performed all technical interviews to build out the team to ten engineers. * Hands on coaching of developers in TDD, pair programming, user stories, planning and estimation techniques.* We delivered www.sky.com to one million unique users a day with five nines availability.* 100+ successful weekly releases of the Sky homepage into production running on a full DevOps model.* Presented the application architecture and design at the 2010 Grails Conference in London.