Experience
Twenty-five years shipping production software — platforms, services and
delivery systems — now building agentic platforms that use Grok, Claude,
Gemini and other LLMs, with MCP, RAG and the SRE practices that keep those
systems live.
Everest Engineering (Contractor)
Jun 2025 – Present
Principal Engineer
- Principal consultant across AI/agentic, platform and full-stack work
— Magentus, Latitude Finance and ID Australia (PEXA), often in
parallel.
- Designed and dogfooded Satelle as an internal agentic
delivery accelerator and commercial open-core product (MCP, spec-driven
stories, developer-in-the-loop gates; Grok, Claude and other agent
CLIs as harnesses).
- Magentus — Senior DevOps Consultant (ongoing). Led
three engineers modernising DX and CI/CD for the AUSLAB C++ estate on
Rocky Linux 8. Stood up AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline; used Ansible to
provision environments idempotently; replaced always-on machines with
ephemeral AWS + Coder environments — ~50% compute cost cut, setup from
~2 days to ~15 minutes. Authored CI/CD architecture, a GitHub Actions
vs CodeBuild vs CodePipeline comparison, a unified monitor architecture,
and a C++→Go rewrite design.
- Latitude Finance — data engineering (Snowflake, DBT,
Airflow, Python, AWS).
- ID Australia (PEXA Group) — mapping prototype
(Vue.js, Postgres, AWS).
Service Delivery Manager / DevOps Lead
- Owned the DevOps and service-delivery engagement for Toyota (TMCA):
four subcontractors, SLAs, incident and change management; documented
and transitioned services from the incumbent vendor, then ran them.
- Resolved pipeline impediments with digital delivery teams and ran
root-cause analysis on technical and process issues.
Kalibre Pty Ltd
Jun 2024 – Mar 2025
Development Lead
- Led development of Kalibre Insight, a push-to-talk device-management
product for emergency services in Australia and the US. Stack: C# /
.NET, Vue.js, SQL Server, Kafka, deployed to air-gapped customer
environments.
- Designed and implemented an automated test platform using HashiCorp
Packer, Terraform, Consul and Nomad against simulated customer datasets,
with Ansible for configuration automation; built test automation and
CI/CD pipelines for quality and release reviews.
- Mentored two remote developers; introduced an agile release cadence;
drove a modernisation roadmap (real-time data UI, phase-out of legacy
components).
Wesfarmers — OneDigital
Oct 2022 – May 2024
Partnerships Manager / Senior Developer / Senior Data Analyst
- Built a technical-analysis platform for the commercial performance of
OnePass and Flybuys across Bunnings, Kmart, Officeworks, Target and
Catch. Stack: Vue.js SPA, Go microservices, Snowflake, with incremental
Python ETL pipelines feeding a timeline charting tool with multiple
overlays.
- Modelled cohorts using transaction value, RFM and membership-state
splits to validate executive hypotheses and surface investment
opportunities.
Stax.io
Aug 2021 – Oct 2022
Customer Success Manager / Senior Developer
- Defined and operated customer-success measures for an AWS
infrastructure-automation product; onboarded five new customers and
maintained five existing.
- Built a customer-success metrics dashboard with ETL from AWS, Jira,
Salesforce, Intercom, HubSpot and internal APIs. Vue.js, Go, Redis,
RavenDB, Docker Swarm, AWS, GitLab CI/CD.
Matrak
Jul 2020 – Aug 2021
Service Delivery Lead
- Defined service-delivery processes for construction supply-chain
products across Australia, China and the US; built customer-success
metrics tooling (Vue.js, Go, RavenDB, Docker Swarm, AWS, GitLab CI/CD)
and selected and migrated to a new service-management platform (Zoho
Desk).
Containerchain / WiseTech
Jul 2014 – Jun 2020
Head of Service Delivery
- Built and led a 20+ person global L1/L2/L3 team for 24/7 support of a
distributed platform spanning 20+ sites in Asia-Pacific, Europe and the
US, mentoring engineers across all three tiers.
- Cleared a 10k-ticket backlog, halved monthly volumes (1k → 500) and
held zero SLA breaches over five years; migrated service tooling from
ServiceNow to Zendesk with no customer outage; used Ansible for
infrastructure and configuration automation.
- Built a service-management aggregation tool (Vue.js, C#, RavenDB,
Docker, Azure DevOps, Linux, Zendesk, Nagios, Azure Service Bus, Azure
Key Vault, MS SQL, Octopus Deploy).
Earlier roles
- SGS Professional — Architect / Business Consultant (Contract), 2014
- No Agent Property — Architect / Developer (Contract), 2014
- Litmus Group — Managing Consultant, 2012–2013
- General Motors Holden — Service Delivery Manager, 2008–2012
- Capgemini — Service Delivery Manager, 2005–2007
- PMP Limited — Senior Developer / Business Analyst, 2004–2005
- R.L. Polk Australia — Senior Developer / Architect / Product Manager, 2002–2004
- Autobytel.com.au — IT Business Analyst, 2001–2002
Certifications & education
- Bachelor of Digital Systems — Monash University (Clayton)
- AWS Certified Professional
- ITIL Foundation Certified V2 — Melbourne Institute of Technology
- PMP — Project Management for IT Professionals
- Ingres Administrator — Certified
- BMC Remedy; Solution Selling for Professionals; SQL Server for
Professionals; Designing and Deploying Multilingual Applications