Deployment software for engineers built by engineers

• Lead both Cloud Platform and Cloud Auth teams (15 engineers total), driving platform development and enterprise authentication solutions for Octopus Cloud infrastructure serving 23,500+ cloud instances with 99.99% uptime
• Built platform APIs for secure external connectivity (SOCKS protocol, private links) and infrastructure provisioning, enabling product teams to integrate without custom networking
• Partner with Product Leadership Team (PLT), including PMs and Principal Engineers, to define platform strategies, reducing enterprise risk exposure by 40% across both teams
• Own cloud budget, risk register, and delivery planning for both teams, optimising investments and coordinating cross-team dependencies
• Oversee incident and on-call management across both platforms, ensuring reliability and rapid response for cloud customers
• Mentor and onboard other Engineering Managers while fostering cross-functional collaboration and team growth

Global messaging platform

• Worked with an internal platform team to build out new infrastructure based on the integrations of multiple acquisitions and the amalgamation into one
• Fast paced and interesting work done in a short time. We moved from being very operational to more product-oriented

Deployment software for engineers built by engineers

• Led two dedicated engineering teams focused on deployment experiences and cloud-native platform strategies, enabling customer adoption of Octopus Cloud
• Directed evolution of user-focused deployment solutions, working with product teams to prioritise features that delivered maximum customer value
• Fostered cross-functional collaboration with design and product teams, ensuring a customer-centric approach to platform offerings and user experience
• Built a culture of continuous feedback and improvement through retrospectives and data-driven decision making, maintaining high software quality standards

Mobile app fintech start-up (acquired)

• Founded, designed, and developed a user-centric mobile fintech app using open banking APIs in the New Zealand market
• Applied strong product instincts to identify a market gap and build a solution that achieved successful acquisition
• Navigated ambiguous technical and product challenges as a solo founder, from API integrations to user experience design
• Demonstrated full-stack capabilities building a TypeScript/React Native frontend with secure backend integrations
• Achieved a successful exit within 2 years, validating product-market fit and execution capabilities

Small business SaaS

• Played a pivotal role in the ideation and creation of the XeroMe app, fostering cross-functional collaboration and ensuring a user-oriented design-to-deployment journey in a platform environment
• Spearheaded the development and integration of 3 standalone applications into a unified user experience, navigating ambiguous technical challenges around platform architecture
• Built mobile platform infrastructure with common auth and shell components across platforms, applying micro-frontend architecture to enable seamless product integration and improve developer experience
• Built a cross-platform UI component system spanning iOS, Android, and web, establishing a consistent design language that reduced cognitive load and improved developer experience

Corporate booking SaaS

• Drove SRE adoption and SLO implementation, leading high-performing teams to ensure streamlined operations, optimal delivery cadence, and production stability
• Implemented infrastructure as code and toil reduction initiatives, improving application performance and developer experience through platform automation
• Led micro-frontend strategy enabling modular, scalable application architecture and improved team autonomy
• Advocated for continuous platform improvement through retrospectives, intentional learning, and data-driven optimisation

Serko, MYOB, First Rand Bank, FGX, IProspect, Fusion Software

• Thrived as a full-stack engineer across two countries, multiple domains, and several companies
• Demonstrated proficiency in C#, Node, JS, and TS, with adept management of databases like MSSQL and MongoDB
• Utilized a comprehensive technical toolkit including Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Circle CI, AWS, Azure, React, and Docker
• Championed Modern Agile and Lean principles, advocating best practices such as Test-Driven Development and eXtreme Programming