Curriculum Vitae

Xero · Wellington, New Zealand

• Leading the engineering of Xero's Kubernetes infrastructure running on AWS, setting technical direction and standards for the platform team.
• Mentoring engineers across the team, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• Driving cloud-native adoption and GitOps practices across engineering teams to improve delivery reliability.
• Collaborating across teams to design scalable and secure self-service developer platform capabilities.

Xero · Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Managed Xero's Kubernetes infrastructure running in AWS alongside supporting legacy compute platforms.
• Automated developer workflows to make it faster and easier for product teams to ship their work.
• Worked daily with Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Helm, Terraform, TeamCity, Jenkins, Python, Go, and Kotlin.
• Implemented and maintained observability pipelines using Sumologic, New Relic, Grafana, StatsD, FluentD, and Prometheus.
• Contributed to front-end tooling with React and TypeScript.

Xero · Wellington, New Zealand

• Started career at Xero as a Graduate Engineer, onboarding into cloud infrastructure and platform operations.
• Gained hands-on experience managing production Kubernetes workloads and AWS services.
• Contributed to internal tooling improvements and developer experience initiatives.

Intergen · Wellington, New Zealand

• Delivered High Availability and Disaster Recovery architecture for Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) on Azure.
• Deployed and configured Azure services including geo-replication, availability zones, failover groups, load balancers, and traffic managers for VMs, SQL, and web services.
• Authored PowerShell scripts and ARM templates to automate infrastructure provisioning.
• Contributed to an internal Progressive Web App project using React, Workbox, and IndexDB for offline functionality and browser caching.

Computer Power Plus · Wellington, New Zealand

• Taught and assisted IT students across qualifications in Technical Support, Web, Software, Systems Administration, and Networking.

Codecamp · Wellington, New Zealand

• Taught basic programming to young kids using Tynker, CodeAcademy, and Scratch.
• Delivered mobile application development workshops using MIT App Inventor.
• Taught software development fundamentals including version control with Git and Agile/Scrum workflows.
• Technologies covered: JavaScript, HTML, CSS.

San Miguel Corporation · Philippines

• Led and supervised a team of Brewing Supervisors to implement new operational directions, targets, and KPIs.
• Implemented a new double dough-in system for adjuncts that saved the company millions.
• Investigated and resolved low material extract recovery issues affecting production output.
• Redesigned operator work schedules to improve shift efficiency and coverage.

San Miguel Corporation · Philippines

• Managed day-to-day brewery operations as part of a team of Brewing Supervisors ensuring product quality standards.
• Optimised sparging parameters, increasing extract volume and concentration without extending residence time.
• Implemented SOPs to reduce dissolved oxygen intrusion by up to 30%.
• Designed and implemented guidelines to reduce materials consumption across multiple production areas.
• Contributed to the monitoring and troubleshooting of the brewhouse energy recovery system, reducing energy consumption.
• Updated and improved Clean-In-Place (CIP) systems across different production areas.

San Miguel Corporation · Philippines

• Trained in brewing process theory, brewery day-to-day operations, and machinery operation.
• Developed guidelines for effective control and monitoring of fermentation processes.
• Resolved warm water usage and production accounting to eliminate shortage and overflow issues.
• Actively involved in troubleshooting the extract refrigeration system.

Container & Platform

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Helm
• Terraform
• GitOps

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Azure
• ARM Templates
• PowerShell

Languages

• Python
• Go
• Kotlin
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• HTML
• CSS

Observability

• Grafana
• New Relic
• Sumologic
• Prometheus
• StatsD
• FluentD

CI/CD & Tooling

• TeamCity
• Jenkins
• Git
• Agile/Scrum

Frontend

• React
• TypeScript
• Progressive Web Apps

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

The Linux Foundation / CNCF · Issued 2023

Licensed Chemical Engineer

Professional Regulation Commission, Philippines · Issued 2011