Two rails, one workshop.

AI solutions studio specialising in integrations, compliance systems, strategic assessments, AI-powered assistants, brand strategy, and small business solutions.

Shipped production work across 6 different domains in year one

• CRM integration plugin: 33,000+ contacts, 13,000+ listings, real-time sync
• Compliance management system donated to a small church: live and in use
• Brand world for a luxury fashion founder: concept, AI film, and investor materials in a 4-day sprint
• Strategic assessment for healthcare practice transformation
• AI constituent engagement assistant for local government
• Small business web framework with SEO and Google Business Profile

Lead Architect for AIA. Helped shape architecture for a new Group Life Insurance system, bridging design intent with day-to-day implementation realities. Led Hannover Re's on-prem to cloud microservices migration. Solution design documents, CI/CD, escalation point for complex challenges.

Mentored senior developers into independent tech leads

Functional specifications, release management across workstreams, solution design. Line management and career coaching for 5–8 engineers. Helped shape Axe's engineering culture.

Delivered consistently at ~50% of budget: client's words

Led team through tight-deadline product onboarding. Contributed to Axe's Model team (innovations + sales), modernising Axelerator's UI. Co-built Claims Dashboard and Policy Admin systems for AMP.

Two AMP systems became successful Axe-wide pilots

Performance profiling (JMeter), CBA WriteSmart upgrades, reverse-engineered legacy systems for the Zurich/Macquarie Life merger, AMP Quote & Application on Axelerator.

Rescued critical client data during Macquarie Life merger

Integrated PautaVotDecom: a biometric presence and voting system: with the existing PautaEletronica environment. Custom Debian 7 distribution for 389 congressional tablets.

Increased parliamentary security and reduced session times

Designed and built PautaEletronica: a touchscreen system showing real-time parliamentary session data to all 513 deputies. Deployed across all Permanent Commissions and the main Plenary.

Eliminated ~3.5 tons of paper usage per month

Web services, Oracle/AXIS2, government interoperability standards. Sat on the Systems Architecture Committee.

ETL tool adoption reduced cross-database load times by over 90%

Built MJDoc (legal proceedings automation) and CNEs (nationwide government subsidies accountability checks).

Rapid progression from Tester to Analyst/Developer

JUnit testing with ANT automation in Fedora Linux. Where it all started.

Brings order to the chaos: quality, structure, and the questions that catch problems before they ship.

Owned projects end to end: lifecycle coordination, client alignment, delivery of complex insurance systems. 9+ years leading.

Clients never surprised, always in sync: colleague's words

Insurance quote and underwriting systems: new features, defect resolution, test-cycle coordination.

Large-scale Java/J2EE money markets banking systems: development, maintenance, fault correction, clustered-environment adaptation.

RISE internal award for exceptional performance on a De-Duplication project

Planning and execution information systems for a water-treatment unit build at a Petrobras refinery.

Led development of traffic-light optimization systems using genetic algorithms (C++). M.Sc. research: a context-sensitive expert recommender system, published 2008.

Building recommender systems in 2007, before your feed had one