I am a strategic Engineering Leader with over 15 years of experience delivering complex, high-performance systems. With a career built on a “player-coach” philosophy, I bridge the gap between deep technical execution and people leadership. I have a proven track record of managing multi-disciplinary squads across Backend (Java/Node.js), Frontend (React/Vue), and Mobile (iOS/Android) environments.

I thrive in high-pressure, fast-paced environments where I specialise in stabilising architectures and optimising system performance under stress. Most recently, I scaled a department from 6 to 18 engineers, fostering a culture of high accountability and engineering excellence that achieved an 8x improvement in system reliability.

Core Expertise:

• Multi-Disciplinary Leadership: Managing and mentoring managers/leads across the full stack, including native iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), and modern web frontend teams.
• Performance & Resilience: Expert at diagnosing bottlenecks and re-architecting systems for high availability and performance in stressful, high-growth environments.
• Strategic Architecture: Driving migrations from legacy monoliths to scalable Microservices and Event-Driven systems (AWS/GCP).
• Capability Uplift: Implementing Engineering Competency Matrices, Dev Guilds, and CI/CD practices to enable autonomous, fast-paced delivery.

Technical Snapshot:

• Mobile & Frontend: iOS (Swift, Objective-C), React, VueJS, React Native.
• Backend & Cloud: Java (Spring Boot), Node.js, Python, AWS (Serverless, ECS, RDS).
• Architecture: Microservices, Event-Driven Design, API Security (OAuth2), performance tuning.
• Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Domain-Driven Design (DDD).

Based in Sydney, NSW, I am seeking opportunities to lead diverse engineering teams and build resilient, customer-centric digital products.