• Engineering Manager with proven track record of leading high-performing technical teams and delivering complex enterprise solutions
  • Expertise in strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration, and scaling engineering organizations through sustainable practices
  • Strong technical foundation spanning full-stack development, cloud architecture, and emerging technologies including AI integration
  • Demonstrated success in performance management, career development, and fostering engineering excellence across multinational organizations

Professional Experience

Engineering Manager - Brand Templates
Canva
August 2023 - Present
  • Lead cross-functional engineering team of 7-9 developers, providing strategic direction and resource allocation aligned with organizational OKRs
  • Execute comprehensive project planning including scope definition, risk assessment, and milestone tracking to ensure timely delivery of minimum viable products
  • Establish strategic partnerships with product, design, and business stakeholders to drive successful feature launches and technical initiatives
  • Orchestrate complex dependency management across multiple engineering teams to achieve company-wide objectives and deliverables
  • Define technical roadmap and architectural decisions while maintaining alignment with long-term product strategy
  • Drive adoption of emerging technologies, particularly AI-driven solutions, within both product offerings and development workflows
  • Implement comprehensive performance management framework including career progression planning and professional development initiatives
  • Championed work-life balance practices and sustainable engineering practices to maintain team productivity and prevent burnout
Lead Engineer - Developer Experience
SEEK
March 2022 - August 2023
  • Managing team of 4 platform engineers to deliver improved developer experience across enterprise, including ECS development pipeline and Kubernetes environment migration
  • Developed internal development portal using Backstage and various developer CLI tools
  • Created short, medium and long-term roadmaps with team-level OKRs aligned to division objectives
  • Provided architectural oversight while delegating complex problems to specialized technical experts
  • Mentoring 2 out of 5 SEEK graduates (2023 cohort)
Lead Engineer - Performance Engineering Practice
SEEK
November 2021 - March 2022
  • Created enterprise-wide synthetic load testing platform using k6.io/flood.io with repeatable end-to-end load tests
  • Led cross-functional team of 6 developers and 3 Business Analysts
  • Coordinated with 20+ internal teams for delivery planning and architectural guidance
  • Mentored SEEK graduate (2022 cohort)
Principal Developer - Candidate Management
SEEK
November 2020 - November 2021
  • Led team of 6 high-performing developers
  • Drove year long project to rebuild Elasticsearch index, reducing p95s from >500ms to <100ms
  • Directly involved in APAC developer hiring pipeline reboot and SEEK mentoring programme
  • Led rollout of company-wide multi-quarter initiative to enable testing in production
  • Coordinated company-wide log4j vulnerability response initiative
Technical Lead
NAB
May 2019 - November 2020
  • Applied enterprise application architecture and development practices expertise
  • Architected and developed serverless and containerised workloads
  • Led team of 8-15 developers with technical oversight and support
  • Championed continuous improvement of agile processes and results-oriented culture
Solutions Architect & Front End Contractor
Champion Data
June 2017 - May 2019
  • Delivered greenfield AWS serverless data pipeline for racing.com handling billions of hits per month
  • Integrated industry standards and best practices, advocated for Git migration from SVN
  • Created business cases for cloud solutions vs on-premise, reducing TCO
  • Developed comprehensive style guide with 50+ React components across multiple projects
  • Achieved AWS Cloud Practitioner certification and worked with AWS Solution Architects
Cofounder
Geku.Tech
November 2016 - October 2020
  • Co-owner/shareholder of privately owned IT consultancy
  • Developed architecture for medical solution including React Native app, Electron desktop app, and serverless C# API
  • Provided technical oversight, mentorship, and pre-sales solution architecture
  • Managed direct client relationships and reporting
Senior Software Engineer
CrownBet
November 2015 - June 2017
  • Developed cloud-first APIs using C# AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, and API Gateway
  • Improved API performance by orders of magnitude through caching and performance tuning
  • Developed React JS components and full SPA applications
  • Co-founded security and front-end guilds, architected migration from PHP to React SPA
  • Reduced build times by 75%+ through DevOps optimizations
Software Engineer
Carsales.com.au
March 2014 - November 2015
  • Developed web applications using ASP.NET, MVC 5, and Entity Framework
  • Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Octopus Deploy
  • Worked with Azure/AWS, RabbitMQ, and Redis in agile environment
  • Created asset pipeline using Gulp/Bower and supported NoSQL transition

Education

Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours)
Monash University, Melbourne
2009
VCE
Huntingtower School, Melbourne
2004

Technical Skills

Frontend Development

  • React, Redux, React Router, Hooks, NextJS
  • JavaScript/TypeScript (ES2015+)
  • HTML5, CSS3, SASS
  • Webpack, Create React App
  • Unit Testing (Jest, Enzyme, Selenium)

Backend Development

  • Node.js, Express
  • C# (.NET 2.0-4.6, .NET Core 1-2.2)
  • ASP.NET, MVC 5, Web API
  • Entity Framework, LINQ
  • SQL Server, MySQL, NoSQL

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS, SNS)
  • CloudFormation, Code Pipeline
  • Docker, Kubernetes, ECS
  • Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD
  • Nginx, Varnish, Route 53

Specialized

  • SAP ABAP, ISU, FICA
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Performance Engineering
  • Load Testing (k6.io)
  • Elasticsearch

AI & Machine Learning

  • Skilled with Context engineering in Cursor, Claude Code
  • AI pipeline integration, AI product integration (gemini,chatgpt API)
  • MCP creation and integration
References available upon request