Profile

Engineering leader with a decade of experience operating at the intersection of engineering systems and business strategy. Track record of building delivery-focused teams, translating complex technical realities into decisions that land with executives, and shipping at scale across fintech, sportstech, and energy. Former engineer. Still thinks like one.

Experience

Engineering Manager

Kaluza · Melbourne, AU
Jun 2026 – Present
  • Engineering Manager at a B2B SaaS company operating in the energy sector.

Engineering Manager / Platform Owner

SportsBet · Melbourne, AU
Jul 2022 – Jun 2026
  • Scaled feature delivery by transitioning from a centralised service model to an inner source platform model.
  • Led development of an MCP server over an enterprise GraphQL aggregation layer, enabling other teams to build agentic AI features. Delivered a PoC with OAuth 2.0 token exchange; productionised the pattern and established a reusable agent pattern library covering data retrieval, modification, bulk operations, and approval flows.
  • Member of multiple tech department strategy groups including the 3-year strategy group and AI strategy committee.
  • Established a cross-cutting platform team to support and deliver enablement work across the engineering organisation.

Engineering Manager

PlayHQ · Melbourne, AU
Jan 2021 – Jun 2022
  • Grew the engineering team rapidly, spinning up multiple new delivery teams and recruiting for both onshore and offshore roles.
  • Created a framework for surfacing and prioritising non-feature work (platform maintenance, tech debt) alongside product stakeholders.
  • Introduced support processes that empowered teams to make their own delivery speed vs. quality decisions, with tooling to support those processes.

Technology Lead

NAB · Melbourne, AU
Sep 2018 – Dec 2020
  • Directed and managed a full-stack technology team building an AI-powered chat platform for NAB.
  • Delivered the chat service across multiple platforms — nab.com, Internet Banking, and both NAB mobile apps.
  • Scaled the delivery team from one engineer to twelve across three scrum teams.

Full-stack Engineer

NAB · Melbourne, AU
Jun 2015 – Sep 2018
  • Delivered the responsive redesign of nab.com.au, working with Adobe AEM components to ship quality content at launch.
  • Worked across Angular frameworks and Adobe AEM, developing technical solutions to address customer needs.

Education

AI Programming with Python

RMIT Online · 2024

Bachelor of Information Technology

RMIT University · 2010 – 2013