Profile

I am a passionate software engineer with 12+ years experience as both an individual contributor and as a senior engineering manager. I have planned and delivered major initiatives at scale, managed engineering departments of ~40 engineers, negotiated with external vendors, and everything in between.

Leadership Skills: People and team management, coaching, quarterly planning, stakeholder management, planning product-focused roadmaps that deliver on long-term architectural plans

Technical Skills: Typescript, Javascript, C#, Ruby, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS (ECS, Lambda, Redis, ElasticCache, RDS etc), React, Remix

Employment History

Engineering Manager @ Linktree

March 2022 — Present

  • Reporting to the CTO, ~5-10 direct reports (3x Staff Engineers), split across three teams.
  • Domain: infrastructure, base platform (monolith, edge, CI/CD fleet) and developer velocity(automation & tooling)
  • Negotiated with external vendors to reduce annual infrastructure spend by $1.2 million USD.
  • Reduced infrastructure/tooling spend by additional $600k USD through other initiatives.
  • Drove technical strategy that increased product availability from 99.5% to 99.9% up-time.
  • Overhauled incident management practices company-wide to reduce incident duration

Lead Engineer @ Envato

April 2021 - March 2022

  • Reporting to Engineering Director, mentored ~4 engineering teams on a rotating basis.
  • Domain: Role focused on mentoring and supporting engineering teams to maximise theirlong-term impact
  • Supported teams with project planning and management, system design and delivery,stakeholder engagement and application design.
  • Helped develop engineers professionally by creating a psychologically safe environment

Senior Solutions Architect @ Compass Education

August 2020 - April 2021

  • Reporting to CTO/Co-founder
  • Led solution design for the enterprise portion of the organisation.
  • Engaged closely with our largest external clients to plan long-running projects (6+ months).
  • Led project that involved migrating 300+ clients to our service.

Senior Developer @ Envato

November 2018 — August 2020

  • Successfully planned and delivered multiple initiatives that integrated internal content systems with recent acquisitions. Increasing our content library by millions of items.
  • Worked alongside senior architectures to evolve our service landscape to consolidate company assets into a centralised Content Warehouse
  • Spear-headed a technical gap analysis to help another team regain control over an initiative that was overdue and over budget.

Portfolio Manager - Development @ Compass Education

January 2014 - November 2018

  • Reporting to CTO/Co-founder, ~6 direct reports (6x Team Leads)
  • Grew the product development department from a single team of 14 software engineers tosix cross-disciplinary teams with ~40 total members
  • Introduced a culture of automated testing and quality assurance that drastically reduced thenumber of production outages and software defects.
  • Overhauled an outdated ticketing system that helped the Development and Support groupcollaborate closely on projects with less friction.
  • Played a critical role in the successful delivery of a long-running project that doubled our userbase.
  • Personally re-engineered our entire payment processing system to support new markets.
  • Started at Compass Education as a Software Engineer and progressed to Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead and eventually Portfolio Manager.

Software Engineer @ Stile Education

July 2012 - January 2014

Software Engineer @ BigLight Ideas

January 2012 - July 2012

Education

Bachelor of Multimedia (Games and Interactivity) / Bachelor of Science (Computer Science and Software Engineering) - Swinburne University of Technology (2007 — 2011)

References

Available upon request