Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Remote

• Founder of Quaffable — bootstrapped and profitable, overseeing all product and engineering functions while leading founder-driven sales efforts. Built the platform from the ground up, defining strategic direction and engaging directly with customers to drive sustainable business growth.

Nov 2023 – Aug 2024 · 9 mos · Hobart, Tasmania, Australia · Remote

• As the Engineering Manager for Web at Unscripted, I oversee technical and product leadership, driving both product and platform initiatives.
• In this role, I have had the opportunity to:
• Collaborate with executives to develop team North Stars and OKRs, aligning our strategic objectives across the company.
• Mentor a young team of software engineers and product specialists, enhancing their skills and fostering a culture of excellence.
• Devise and implement strategies and tactics for delivering high-quality software and ensuring robust support for existing projects.
• Lead engineering and cross-functional team collaborations, significantly enhancing team effectiveness and project outcomes.

Jun 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

• As Engineering Manager and Technical Lead for Payments at Ignition, I provide people management, technical leadership and commercially minded strategy for payments at Ignition.
• I've had the privilege of founding the Payments Engineering Team at Ignition, this has come opportunities such as:
• The onboarding of our current 8 Payments Team members (including product and design) to payments.
• Representing our Engineering team and Payments at both company level and with business partners outside of Ignition.
• Development of commerically impactful strategies and tactics and our future roadmap to continue the impressive growth of payments at Ignition.
• Working closely with our non-engineering partners at Ignition to continue supporting payments from a support, finance and fraud and risk view.
• Continued to grow education (including best security practices) across Ignition for payments across our 5 regions.

May 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr · Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

• As an individual contributor, I took ownership of managing our payments platform, leading to my invitation to engineering leadership building the Payments Team at Ignition today.
• In my time as an individual contributor I completed several successful and impactful projects including:
• Building payments education and documentation, both for engineers and supporting the wider business.
• Architectured and implemented commerically impactful features, enabling payments to become a key revenue source for Ignition.
• Supported Igniton's amazing payments growth: 30+% year on year, scaling our technical support requirements to match.
• Designed, architected and implemented many continuous improvement initiatives to help scale all aspects of payments at Ignition.

Sep 2014 – Aug 2020 · 5 yrs 11 mos

• I joined this business as a technical cofounder in 2015, and successfully technically led and grew it's online presence.
• In this time I found many opportunities to further grow my skillset such as:
• Identifying product opportunities and driving the business through product lead growth
• Architecting and implementing complex API integrations with both suppliers and partners
• Development of fraud and risk strategies for a high risk industry (travel)
• Scaling a real time API and the introduction of a micro-services architecture
• Mentoring and coaching hires within the business, and scaling the engineering team beyond a technical cofounder

May 2007 – Apr 2021 · 13 yrs 11 mos · Australia · Hybrid

• With over 14 years of experience in software development, I have worked across a range of industries and roles. My expertise spans technical development, product and project management, and technical leadership. Throughout my career, I have played a key role in modernizing legacy systems, mentoring teams, and driving projects from concept to completion.
• Technical Development
• Led the development and modernization of front-end and back-end systems, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Migrated legacy codebases to production-ready replacements, making key architectural decisions to simplify technical stacks.
• Developed and contributed to full-stack applications using technologies such as Typescript (Node/React.js), Ruby on Rails and Elixir.
• Product & Project Management
• Introduced agile methodologies and structured software development lifecycles.
• Collaborated with non-technical stakeholders to establish project management strategies.
• Took ownership of incomplete system rewrites and drove them to successful launches.
• Technical Leadership
• Led and scaled engineering teams by establishing best practices, fostering team rituals, and mentoring new team members.
• Managed technical due diligence and facilitated the transition of applications from offshore to in-house development.
• Empowered teams with knowledge and long-term strategies to ensure sustained success.