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Chicago, IL, US

Melbourne, VIC, AU

As the Fractional CTO at Kyri, I drive the technical strategy of the company, overseeing the development of a wearable ovulation tracker and accompanying health software suite. I've played a pivotal role in guiding Kyri from pre-market, through launch to its subsequent scaling phase. My approach emphasises agility and efficiency, ensuring that our strategy.

Collingwood, Victoria, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Melbourne, VIC, AU

Inflamed aims to advance how we manage and treat skin inflammation - a trifecta of tools that track episodes for the general user, a clinician tool to be able to view patient history as well as a researcher portal to access aggregated and de-identified data for research purposes. My role is to advise this early-stage startup on cloud and data architecture.

Melbourne, VIC, AU

Esper is an early-stage deep-tech startup building on-orbit Earth observation and remote-sensing hardware and software. The team is building a multi-spectral imagine device scheduled to be launched in a ride-share mission later this year.- Coached the team on software engineering practices and how to minimise risk- Reviewed and revised the technical.

Sydney, NSW, AU

Bluejay AI empowers businesses to streamline their risk management processes. I played a pivotal role in designing and transitioning the product to Azure's cloud-native services. I also developed and deployed AI/ML algorithms, including clustering and deduplication utilising sentence embeddings, LLMs and HDBSCAN. My contributions also encompassed product.

Broadmeadow, New South Wales, AU

At Hone Ag, I serve as a Consulting Cloud & Data Engineer, developing solutions for soil analysis using a handheld tool. The central work was to improve the pipeline (Python, AWS services, and the H2O HPO) for model training, testing, and deployment processes to make model development faster.Tech stack: AWS, Python, H20, Data, AI/ML, Fargate, ECS, Lambda

Melbourne, VIC, AU

At WhyHive, I led the rapid development and deployment of an innovative user-friendly tool to bring data science to everyone. This solution makes heavy use of various AI tools, including OpenAI's GPT-3 and GPT-4 models, to enable natural language querying of CSV. The platform was built using SST, AWS, Azure, Python, Langchain, Node.js and DuckDB.Tech.

Melbourne VIC, VIC, AU

Agtuary provides tools and services for land owners and investors to understand various agricultural risks. My role is to mature the infrastructure and architectural solutions to the technical products as well as step up the engineering processes to build and maintain better quality output.Tech stack: AWS, CDK, Python, Pandas, Numpy, Dask, Geospatial.

CultureMoves is an early-stage startup that brings affordable culture coaching to small businesses. - Navigate the treacherous technological terrain of early-stage ventures and give them the best chance of success. - Review and implement technologies and cloud services to give the strong early momentum Interview and hire engineering talent- Designed.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Whispir provides communication capabilities to a number of global tier-1 customers and so reliability and performance are key aspects of its product offering. - Scaled teams to ~60 engineers to properly support strategic efforts and team members- Transformed engineering into a cross-functional “squad” model and introduced an engineering management layer to.

Global, HK

Airwallex wanted to bring its growing array of services to mobile users.- Built a brand new, greenfields mobile engineering capability from the ground up- Designed an overall strategy for mobile including, product exploration, API design and architectural roadmap, rapid prototyping and delivery. - Worked with Talent to write job descriptions and hire team.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Consulting in the AI, machine learning and data science space with various companies in Melbourne. - Live video-processing using machine vision on mobile devices using MobileNet with SSD, signal graph processing and time-based error correction- Smart document scanning of both typed and hand-written words using neural networks - Kubernetes-based data.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Kozai is a managed Data Science Platform in your Browser. We're on a mission to bring cutting-edge data science to the masses at an affordable price and within a few clicks. Kozai provides supercomputing capabilities, right within your web browser. Providing and supporting the latest and greatest in Data Science tooling, Kozai aims to make it faster.

Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, MY

iFlix is a video streaming platform servicing the emerging markets of SE Asia, Middle-East and Africa.- Recruited and built a world-class mobile engineering team from the ground up- Adopted existing web-based mobiel app and planned and executed a high-quality, cross-platform, native rebuild - The team also built Android and Apple TV apps to bring the.

Emit is a community broadcasting platform designed to provide cost-effective and modern streaming solutions to the community broadcasting sector. - Custom-compiled ffmpeg(s) for distortion-free AAC aggregation- Heavy use of Amazon's AWS infrastructure, Ubuntu Linux, Ruby- Serviced many Australian community broadcasting stationsKeywords: Ruby, Java, AWS.

Gold Coast, QLD, AU

Guvera is a streaming music provider to global emerging markets of the world and also developed novel new products, such as Fradio, leveraging the platform’s music library.- Built a mobile engineering team to design and develop Guvera products- Developed a complex new product, Fradio, from the ground up to production in under 3 months- Productionised.

Working as a hired gun to design and deliver over 20 mobile applications to production for a variety of early-stage and established startups. Focused on iOS using Objective-C and Swift but also some Android development.Keywords: iOS, Startups, Product Development, Rapid Development, Consumer Applications, Architecture, Objective-C, Swift, API Design, REST.

San Francisco, California, US

Remotely contracting part-time for this SF-based startup and helping them update and improve their iOS app.

Sunnyvale, California, US

We picked one of our ideas and decided to run with it. It took us a week to have a working prototype and another couple of weeks to get that into the hands of testers. Overall, we deployed v1.0 some 2 months of part time work later. We designed and built a scalable back-end to consumer, aggregate and process various social media sources for the client app..

London, England, GB

In-housing an externally developed, under performing Ruby on Rails app and bootstrapping the internal effort to provide a tactical solution to increase performance before a replacement system is ready. The initial priority was to establish system and application monitoring (NewRelic) to gain as much visibility as possible before assessing various.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Designing and developing the Australia Post Digital Mailbox application with a team of engineers from various consultancies.

AU

Working as part of a small team on building the next-generation Metlink (soon to be PTV) mobile app. Leaving aside the debacle that ensued after the app's initial launch, I think time has shown this to be much simpler and more useful app than it's predecessor.

Sydney, AU

Working with some of the best talent in Melbourne, we designed and developed a native iPhone app (and the associated server-side technology) for sports-based social networking. Aside from iOS development, I also worked closely with the designers to guide them on mobile UX, with the server-side teams to build better APIs and with other developers to help.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Working in a small, tight-knit team, we worked closely with product and the capability team to produce a new iPad app to offer a new way of consuming the Yellow Pages. We were given quite an ambitious brief to examine new methods of interaction, on this device, including a "digital book view". We managed to deliver this project on-time and on-budget.

Moonee Ponds, Victoria, AU

Developing an iPad-based interactive brochure for use at the Sydney and Melbourne motorshows. The app was to be ad-hoc deployed in locked stands next to 50+ devices around the various cars on show. Stability was critical and we tested the app to reliably run, under constant use, for 10+ hours (on average). The iPad was also fairly new, so we wanted to make.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Worked on Yellow Pages Online - Both the core search as well as the web app. I transitioned the website's use of Javascript from a multitude of handcrafted and third-party (prototype, DWR, etc) implementations to a single, simple, jQuery approach.I also migrated the old Struts 1.0 web application across to Spring MVC - pushing hard to remove remnants of.

Dublin, IE

PHP/Symfony development of internal websites of the publishing company famous for many UK magazines. Later, I designed and built a lucene-based search application to provide modern search functionality for the various websites we managed.

Co-founder of a funded startup exploring the use of intelligent p2p networking as a method fo delivering low-cost, high-bandwidth streaming solutions.

London, England, GB

Worked on a novel image processing and generation technology for Coke Zero campaign in the UK. Built a CMS platform for Digit-authored sites. Real-time video processing and OpenGL graphics for installations.

Memefeeder started as a online media art project and evolved into a company that wanted to push mobile video technology and social networks together.

Nashik, Maharashtra, IN

Managed the development and deployment of the Info.com search-engine website and infrastructure. The architecture we built was a multi-node cluster that could be scaled out by adding more machines.

Systems admin (Linux, Unix, Windows) and PHP, Perl and Java development. We worked for a variety of clients from small websites to CD-ROM and online multimedia production.

Masters By Research, Machine Learning, Supercomputers And Astronomy

Graduate Certificate, Astronomy

Bsc (Hons), Computing

Bsc, Physical Sciences