Professional Summary
Hands-on Solution Architect with over 11 years of engineering experience, with 5+ years of which in Solution Architect roles, specializing in bridging the gap between high-level digital strategy and hands-on technical execution within the APAC Banking & Financial Services, and Australia's Energy sector. Expert in designing Secure-by-Design architectures that align with international standards and compliance while driving commercial velocity. Seamlessly transitions between commercial strategy, architecture, and engineering, with a proven presales track record of securing 7-figure contracts and delivering enterprise-scale modernization.
Core Competencies
Cloud & Architecture
Cloud-native Solution Architecture, Serverless, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Architecture Governance, System Design, FinOps
Data & AI
Data Platforms, Data Lake, Data Modelling, Real-time Streaming, MLOps, Data Governance, Generative AI, Agentic AI, Customer Data Platform
DevOps & SRE
CI/CD Pipeline, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, Containerization (Docker/K8s), Observability, Configuration Management
Leadership & Strategy
Technical Presales, Engineering Team Leadership, Technical Communication, Stakeholder Communication, Risk & Issue Resolution
Work Experience
Hands-on Sr. Solution Architect
Datum Consulting · Auckland / Remote
- Engineering Leadership: Managed an engineering team of 11 engineers (including 2 technical leads), fostering "You Build It, You Run It" culture.
- Technical Presales: Led Presales for major banking transformation initiatives, securing 7-figure USD modernization contracts.
- Enterprise DevSecOps & Platform Strategy: Authored architectural blueprints (Landing Zone, EKS) establishing an "Everything as Code" baseline.
- Data Governance & Quality: Architected a self-service "Data Contract" platform, reducing support tickets by 40%.
- Real-Time Lending Offer Engine: Engineered serverless workflow for real-time offer generation with minimal overhead.
- MLOps & Feature Serving: Built a bespoke Online Feature Store achieving sub-500ms p99 latency at 500+ TPS.
- Platform Engineering: Designed "Zero-Touch" ingestion patterns for RDS and NoSQL, reducing onboard time from weeks to hours.
- Large-Scale Simulation: Orchestrated 2,000+ concurrent ECS containers for Energy Market simulations.
- Legacy Modernization: Designed "Zero-Impact" ETL pipeline for Core Banking modernization.
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer
Datum Consulting · Auckland
- Real-Time Messaging: Engineered Kafka/Spark Streaming engine for instant mass transactional notifications.
- Customer Data Platform: Led implementation unifying fragmented profiles for real-time personalization.
- Secure CI/CD Pipelines: Designed cross-account pipelines ensuring regulatory compliance and accelerated deployment.
Software Engineer
Datum Consulting · Auckland
- Mortgage Origination Backend: Developed serverless platform reducing manual lead capture by 2 hours/application.
- Frontend Architecture: Architected secure, high-availablity delivery pipelines for customer portals (CloudFront/S3).
Bio-medical Engineering Researcher
Auckland Bioengineering Institute
- Modeled and optimized motors for novel Needle Jet Injection devices.
- Yielded five IEEE publications, including a top 10% journal article and Best Paper Award.
Product Development Engineer
Fisher & Paykel Appliances
- Engineered automated test rigs and applied Design of Experiments (DoE) for product reliability.
Education
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering
The University of Auckland · Physics, Machine Learning
Bachelor of Engineering (1st Class Hons)
The University of Auckland · Mechatronics Engineering
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
- AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty
- AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty
- AWS Generative AI and AI Agents with Bedrock
- Machine Learning - Deeplearning.ai
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Awards
- IEEE Best Paper Award (Emerging Technology Category)- IEEE Power Electronics Society · Sep 2018
- Full Doctoral Scholarship- MedTech Centre of Research Excellence · Sep 2016
- Project Demonstration Prize- IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo · 2017