About Me

House of Doge is a Nasdaq-listed digital payments company. Its consumer product, Such, is a non-custodial wallet and merchant payments app for iOS and Android: keys are generated, held, and used to sign on the device, the backend never sees a secret, and the transfers it authorises are irreversible.

I was the founding engineer on the React Native client and its only committer for the first eleven weeks. In that time I set the package layout, the layering rules, and the CI pipeline the team still ships through: a feature-oriented monorepo with contract-first protobuf APIs and end-to-end type safety, so features could be built in parallel without the architecture drifting.

As the team grew I moved the conventions out of people's heads and into the repository: ADRs and domain documentation, repository-specific agent skills, and quality gates that apply to human and agent-authored code alike, including testing standards and cognitive complexity budgets. The point was that an engineer or an LLM agent could contribute safely inside constraints they could read.

OneTwo develops the automation platform for ANZ Australia that unifies fragmented banking systems into a single workflow, automating home loan processing through document intelligence, workflow orchestration, and human-in-the-loop decisioning.

Led one of four engineering teams while providing technical leadership across software architecture, engineering standards, and platform delivery. The surfaces I owned were shared infrastructure: the UI library, the HLQ frontend, the business-rules DSL, and the home-loan workflows and rules. Engineers on the other three teams built against them, so the patterns and standards I set there became the patterns they worked to. Defined architectural direction that improved maintainability, enabled reliable delivery across teams, and supported continued product growth.

Served as code owner for several critical platform components, including the inherited core rules engine, maintaining architectural integrity, reducing technical debt, and coordinating cross-team changes across shared services and platform dependencies.

Designed and delivered architecture spanning the customer-facing application, shared component library, home loan workflows, a human-readable DSL for business rules, CoreEngine APIs, domain services including RLS and RLM enrichment, and integrations with internal banking systems and Q, the adjacent document-intelligence platform. Work inside Q was limited to minor Python plugin changes for HLQ integration; its document-intelligence internals belonged to another team. Established clear service boundaries, reusable platform capabilities, and well-defined interfaces that reduced implementation complexity and enabled the platform to evolve safely as new products and workflows were introduced.

GetSetUp operates a large-scale educational platform supporting over 4 million users via a distributed microservices ecosystem. The architecture handles live interactive sessions, content orchestration, subscription models, and embedded partner integrations to facilitate real-time engagement at scale.

I owned the content layer, the sessions layer, the staff admin, and partner attribution tooling, and co-designed the split between a Presentation API and GraphQL with the platform team: the Presentation API assembled every catalogue page server-side and GraphQL was the only public client contract, so web, mobile, and embeds rendered from one contract. New services started from a shared Koa and TypeScript template with validated config, probes, and one deploy path onto EKS, which is how work moved off the legacy site in pieces.

Acted as technical lead and code owner for several core services, establishing architectural standards and ensuring high-quality software delivery.

Joined to lead a new headless education platform and LMS. The venture did not move into build, so I moved on to do that work at scale elsewhere.

While there, systemised the studio’s software development and DevOps practices by introducing processes that improved delivery, development workflows, and resource utilisation. Led the adoption of new technologies and contributed to technical hiring, resource planning, and engineering direction across multiple client projects.

DDB New Zealand is an advertising agency with an in-house engineering practice, and for five years I led it, first as Tech Lead and then as Head of Technology. The work was the products behind the campaigns rather than the campaigns themselves: Re:scam for NetSafe, Fight for Territory for Steinlager, and the GeminAI Rising rebuild for DDB Canada, alongside platforms and DDB-owned SaaS products for commercial, government, and enterprise clients.

I modernised the stacks those products ran on, moved the practice onto cloud-native architectures, and was the engineer clients dealt with when a project was technically complex.

Buzzdial put a live reaction meter on the phone of someone watching television. I was one of two engineers: I owned the viewer-facing dial, the partner embeds, and the producer and on-air overlay tools, and the two of us designed and built the API, the per-second aggregation, and the auto-scaling AWS platform together. It handled hundreds of thousands of concurrent users at above 99.99% availability and under 400 ms globally, for about 96% less than colocation would have cost, and was used for the 2015 UK ITV Leaders Debate, Shark Tank Australia, SBS Eurovision, and the 2015 Rugby Championship.

Digital Arts Network is TBWA’s digital agency. My main work there was TVNZ OnDemand’s phone and tablet apps for Apple and Android, New Zealand’s first on-demand TV apps, built with Brightcove, a Boston-based streaming partner. I was the only engineer on the client. Both apps reached number one on their store charts soon after launch and won multiple Best Design Awards.

I also led the build of myWealth, a wealth management and planning tool for NZ Funds. It won a Best Design Award.

Taught CSS fundamentals and CMS Made Simple during a Head of Department transition.

End-to-end delivery of brochure sites, content-managed websites, and e-commerce builds in PHP and JavaScript, from client services, planning and design through development and hosting.