About
Product-focused lead software engineer, based in Sydney, Australia with 15+ years’ experience delivering products from idea to scale across startups, SMEs, and global commerce. Strong at combining user empathy, product sense, and technical depth with applied AI. Experienced collaborator in high-growth, cross-disciplinary teams.
Current focus
Role
Lead engineering and AI at Pollen; hands-on across AI, web, mobile, backend, and cloud infrastructure.
Focus areas
Shipping user-facing AI features including RAG, agents, and workflows, measurement & evals, cost/performance tuning. Fine-tuning models for domain, language, and dialect tasks, and training lightweight policy models for classification, intent detection, and retrieval-strategy selection.
Open Source
Fetch Engines. A structured extraction toolkit that turns web pages into high-quality Markdown and JSON. link
Availability
Open to select collaborations and advisory on applied AI and product engineering.
Career Highlights
Clara - AI companion for arthritis (Webby-nominated)
Evidence-based mobile app using RAG; 87% specialist approval and 90% would recommend link
PollenAI - Agentic AI Search
Adopted by Australian federal government, healthcare providers, and national infrastructure; processing millions of queries annually link
Rebuilt - Part-time CTO
Australia’s first self-service platform for verified Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) link
Sound Shelter - Founder
Vinyl marketplace scaled to ~100k users and 30+ partner stores link
Youcheck - Founding engineer
Founding team at startup awarded Google DNI funding to combat online misinformation using NLP link
HomeAway.com
First technical hire in APAC for HomeAway.com (prior to $3.9B acquisition by Expedia Inc.) link