Cloud architecture and technical leadership for secure, scalable AWS platforms.
Senior software developer and technical lead, currently contracting for LINZ. I work across multi-account AWS organisations, infrastructure-as-code, full-stack services and, lately, generative AI — and I stay hands-on in the code.
- AWS CDK (TypeScript)
- ECS Fargate
- Aurora PostgreSQL
- NestJS
- Kotlin / Spring Boot
- React / Angular
- Identity federation
- Generative AI
Projects
Client platforms, internal tooling and side projects. Client names are kept out where they need to be.
Greezmate
A multi-tenant workshop management platform for automotive garages — jobs, quotes, invoicing and customer communication, built serverless on AWS.
Data centre infrastructure management on AWS
Hosted Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure IT Advisor on AWS — highly available, defined in CDK, and with zero direct internet exposure.
Cloud-native document processing pipeline
A PDF and image processing pipeline built for scale and cost, replacing manual document handling.
Multi-account AWS governance
Landing zone, guardrails and security baseline for a multi-account AWS organisation, with federated identity.
Developer intelligence platform
Org-wide architecture for surfacing engineering signals across teams and repositories.
RAG evaluation framework
Scoring retrieval quality with context precision and context recall, using an LLM as the judge.
Multi-agent personal platform
Fitness, nutrition, grocery and finance agents on NestJS, exposed to assistants through an MCP server.
Multi-tenant utility billing platform
BillBot — a serverless, multi-tenant billing platform for small and medium electricity retailers, replacing spreadsheet-driven billing.
Trailer rental management system
Replaced a paper-based trailer hire operation with tablet kiosks and web portals, covering 1,000+ trailers across 20+ petrol station sites.
From Java backends to cloud leadership
- Jun 2026 — Present
LINZ
Senior Digital Specialist (Developer) · Contract - May 2023 — May 2026
Digital Transformation
Senior Software DeveloperLeading AWS architecture for international clients, from requirements and proofs of concept to Well-Architected delivery. Managing teams of 6–8 engineers while staying hands-on with code and proofs of concept. Part of the hiring process.
- Aug 2018 — Mar 2023
Tunclab Solutions
Technical LeadPrimary technical lead for a boutique consultancy, running cross-functional teams of 3–5 engineers building web and mobile applications for international clients. Moved the company to AWS-first architectures with infrastructure-as-code and automated CI/CD, cutting deployment time from hours to minutes, and introduced sprint planning that improved team productivity by 40%. Technical interviewer for engineering hires.
- Nov 2014 — Aug 2018
Zone 24x7
Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer → Associate Tech LeadJava backend development on large-scale projects — where it started. A cheque deposit platform handling $2M+ in daily transactions, a KYC document verification system processing 10K+ documents a day, and a warehouse automation solution. Moved from hands-on development into mentoring and team leadership alongside the architecture group.