Employment History

Backend Engineer Oct 2025-Current

Coinjar Australia

Working with a core team of expert individuals doing big things with distributed systems in an evolving fintech space. Day to day, a mix of Ruby/GraphQL; with occasional sides quests into Elixir

  • Strong knowledge of KYC/Identity Verification systems (successfully launching Coinjar Europe's Germany expansion)
  • Delivery of key MiCAR conformance milestones
  • Launched PayPal integration for all Australian customers
  • Rails at scale: a distributed architecture serving 600,000+ customers; integrating with a diverse and ever evolving set of integration partners across four regulated markets.
  • Agentic DevOps - building out observability and LLM investigation tooling
  • Development Manager 2021–Oct 2025

    Clintel Systems Pty Ltd

    What started as a hands-on development role encompassing team leadership evolved into a multi faceted implementation, quality assurance, risk management, and product management role within the core management team.

    This role encompassed all aspects of delivery of complex health projects, often resulting in being the boots on the ground and key accountable individual for our client's success from from project initiation to go live and beyond.

    • Implementation and ownership of ISO27001 policies and practices, whole of organisation security and governance
    • Successful deployment of clinical workflows to hospitals, clinics, universities, telehealth providers in a large and varied number of clinical specialities (mental health, paediatric, oncology and much more)
    • Implementation and ongoing conformance to Medicare, MyHealthRecord, ePrescribing standards
    • Managed and empowered a wide and diverse team, cutting across development and operations

    Technical Business Analyst 2019–2021

    Herron Todd White Australia
    Leadership-focused analyst role during organisational scaling, combining product, project management, integration and quality responsibilities.
    • Led integrations with major banking clients (Hometrack Australia, Valocity)
    • Managed overhaul of PropertyPro 2020 standard adoption
    • Removed legacy backend infrastructure with zero user impact
    • Provided project, quality & risk management guidance
    • Responsible for autonomous development squad (3–5 devs)

    Solution Architect 2013–2019

    Herron Todd White Australia
    Designed & developed a Service-Oriented Architecture replacing Lotus Notes systems. Led integrations, team mentoring, and multi-region delivery supporting 800+ staff and 250k+ yearly valuation processes.
    • Successfully delivered all major project phases to all users (2013–2015), transitioning from a legacy Lotus Notes deployment to a modern Rails, Ember.js SPA.
    • Enabled admin staff to migrate with positive feedback
    • Established cross-team project & risk practices
    • Avoided major disruptions through incremental change

    Applications Architect 2011–2012

    RP Data Pty Ltd
    • Integrated legacy platforms across enterprise teams
    • Drove consumer strategy through ValEx/MyRP
    • Delivered business intelligence capabilities
    • Major contributor to LIXI standards work
    • Championed data services layer

    Senior Developer 2005–2011

    Valuation Exchange
    • Grew platform into market leader acquired by RP Data
    • Managed small development & QA teams
    • Delivered major projects (CBA, Bankwest, NAB)
    • Led web services integrations with multiple vendors
    • Key resource during acquisition transition