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.