Professional Journey
A complete timeline of roles, projects, and professional experience.
Professional Experience
Software Engineer
CurrentNexivity·Sydney, Australia
Sole feature engineer on BackupMeraki — AWS-native backup & restore for Cisco Meraki networks
- ▸Sole feature developer on BackupMeraki, working fully full-stack across eight repositories — Python/AWS Lambda backend, the core backup/restore engine, Next.js/TypeScript dashboard, AWS infrastructure, four Lambda services, and Cisco Meraki and Stripe integrations
- ▸Built a custom asyncio token-bucket rate limiter with adaptive, jittered retry/backoff to stop backups silently losing data under Meraki's strict API rate limits, replacing blind pass/fail with an honest successful / partial / failed status model and per-run diagnostics
Software Engineer & Product Lead
CurrentDone Life·Sydney, Australia
Production Flutter app with AI email ingestion, field-level encryption, and cloud infrastructure as code
- ▸Made the app 97% faster for users by replacing blind 15-minute email polling with custom mailhooks (Gmail push notifications), cutting average processing time from 20 minutes to 40 seconds — entirely my own initiative
- ▸Cut cloud costs by 91% by building a junk filter that discards the ~90% of inbound attachment data (signature images, decorative graphics) that was useless noise before it ever reached the AI
Software Engineering Intern
Accenture·Sydney, Australia
GenWizard · Automatic Ticket Resolver — Central Monitoring team
- ▸Designed and deployed a serverless API platform on AWS to manage large-scale OpenSearch permissions
- ▸Built event-driven workflows with EventBridge + Step Functions, mirroring stream-processing systems
Casual Academic
CurrentUniversity of Sydney·Sydney, Australia
Teaching machine learning and Python to engineering students
- ▸Tutored 450+ students in machine learning and Python workflows for practical engineering use cases
- ▸Mentored students in applying AI/ML to real-world engineering datasets
Leadership & Community
President
USYD Robotics Club·Sydney, Australia
Led the University of Sydney's second-largest student club
- ▸Directed a 25-member engineering team delivering 30+ events
- ▸Scaled operations from 230 to 1,800+ members in 2 years
General Volunteer
Engineers Without Borders Australia·Sydney, Australia
Promoting Engineering as an exciting career to K-12 students
- ▸Delivered 100+ hours of thematic learning modules & conducted creative, hands-on workshops with students of Years 5-12
- ▸Promoted Engineering as an exciting career option, with special emphasis on Sustainable and Humanitarian Engineering
Various Roles
Faculty Communicator
CurrentUniversity of Sydney·Sydney, Australia
Coordinating workshops and program events between students, staff and partners
- ▸Represented the Faculty of Engineering at school outreaches and open days, delivering hands-on engineering workshops to 1,500+ students from Years 5–12 across Sydney and regional NSW
- ▸Liaising between students, academic staff & external partners to coordinate workshops and program events
Brand Ambassador
Mash Staffing Australia·Sydney, Australia
Event staff for multiple brand activations
- ▸Worked casually as event staff for multiple events
- ▸Responsible for engaging with consumers and creating a positive brand experience for attendees
Course Leader
Actura·Sydney, Australia
Teaching robotics to Year 8 students at Reddam House School
- ▸Delivered Line Follower & Light Crawler Robot activities to Year 8 students at Reddam House School, Sydney
- ▸Part of the CASE FlipRobot Academy curriculum
Education
Bachelor of Engineering Honours
University of Sydney·Software Engineering
Aug 2021 – Oct 2025
Key Courses
- Intelligent Video Signal Understanding: 91 (High Distinction)
- Cloud Computing: 88 (High Distinction)
- Full Stack Development: 86 (High Distinction)