// curriculum vitae

The Network for Learning (N4L) Jun 2022 – Present

N4L provides managed network services to 95% of schools in Aotearoa, along with services to the Ministry of Education.

Senior Software Architect

Role Purpose

Responsible for solutioning, prototyping and in some cases building software application solutions and services at N4L. Working closely with delivery squads, solution architects, key stakeholders and the engineering team to ensure delivery of software solutions.

Responsibilities

Designing and developing software solutions and services, supporting engineering teams, identifying areas for improvement, overseeing scaling and availability of the N4L platform and producing architecture artefacts including high and low-level design documents, architecture design patterns, facilitating workshops and defining architecture principles.

Achievements

• Designed and built an integration service and API for integrating with threat intel feeds as part of a cyber security service. This service enabled 2500+ firewalls to fetch dynamic threat feeds and apply filtering rules across the network.
• Designed and implemented a custom network monitoring solution to scale beyond 60,000 devices, determining uptime and collecting SNMP data from switches, access points and firewalls. Key integration into Salesforce and Grafana with significant cost saving on potential commercial licenses.
• Designed a caching solution for the self service portal using Redis and an ETL pattern with session workers for just-in-time caching, improving data retrieval performance from the data lake.
• Designed and built a proof of concept for an assessment platform integrating with SharePoint, Salesforce, Qlik and PowerBI.

The Network for Learning (N4L) Apr 2019 – Jun 2022

N4L provides managed network services to 95% of schools in Aotearoa, along with services to the Ministry of Education.

Software Architect and Development Team Lead

Role Purpose

Responsible for solutioning, developing and managing software applications and services at N4L alongside implementing CI/CD processes and software development procedures.

Responsibilities

Designing and developing software solutions and services, line management of the development team, mentoring of junior and intermediate developers, identifying areas for improvement in the development process, and impacting business outcomes through effective organisation and execution of key projects.

Achievements

• Architected and built a self service portal and platform API using the MEAN stack and Elasticsearch, enabling managed network users to gain insights through data analysis and manage their network settings.
• Designed and built an integration service and API for IOT devices that capture readings and manage deployments into schools as part of a Ministry of Education program.
• Designed and built an event management system for proactive monitoring of internal school environments with alerting, analysis and simple learning capabilities.
• Designed and built a full CI/CD pipeline along with a production Docker Swarm environment, including deployment and management of MongoDB, RabbitMQ and Elasticsearch clusters.
• Designed and implemented a microservice environment using REST and RabbitMQ.

ICM Asia Pacific / C3 Post Trade Sep 2018 – Dec 2018

C3 Post Trade is focused on trade confirmations and position reconciliations, serving a predominantly overseas client base including hedge funds and investment banks such as HSBC.

Development Manager

Role Purpose

Responsible for managing the development team and working closely with Architecture to ensure best practices are followed with a continuous improvement mindset.

Responsibilities

Line management of the development team, mentoring junior and intermediate developers, identifying areas for improvement in the development process and providing or implementing solutions.

Achievements

• Implemented a Code Quality strategy leveraging SonarQube for code analysis, including code coverage, an initial rule set, a rollout plan and a new branching strategy to better leverage code reviews.
• Integrated Code Quality tools into the Continuous Integration pipeline.

ICM Asia Pacific / C3 Post Trade Feb 2016 – Sep 2018

C3 Post Trade is focused on trade confirmations and position reconciliations, serving a predominantly overseas client base including hedge funds and investment banks such as HSBC.

Developer / Senior Developer

Role Purpose

Implement new functionality in the existing SaaS platform and provide technical specifications and designs for junior and intermediate developers.

Responsibilities

Technical lead and oversight on client-specific projects by liaising with BA and Architecture teams. Mentoring junior and intermediate developers and providing technical guidance as required.

Achievements

• Designed and implemented a new reporting framework for Net Asset Value reports as a new platform service.
• Designed and implemented a new data export framework to publish confirmations to external systems via standard transport protocols such as FTP(s).

ICM Asia Pacific / Hydrogen Apps / EROAD Jan 2015 – Feb 2016

Hydrogen Apps is a startup focused on mobile application development using Xamarin and contracting developers to external parties. A key client was EROAD, who provides services to transport companies.

Senior Mobile Developer

Role Purpose

Implement, design and enhance mobile applications for clients as a contractor and consultant.

Responsibilities

Mobile development and leading an agile team on contract to EROAD to build and maintain a new driver logbook for the US market, including providing technical design and implementation of the US app.

Achievements

• Delivered the US app to the App Store.
• Implemented a rules engine for the Driver app allowing dynamic rule sets to be loaded across different US states.
• Implemented MVVM in the US app in preparation for a port to iOS.

ICM Asia Pacific / C3 Post Trade Feb 2012 – Jan 2015

C3 Post Trade is focused on trade confirmations and position reconciliations, serving hedge funds and investment banks such as HSBC. Client services were an important part of the services provided.

Technical Support / Junior Developer

Role Purpose

Provide technical support to overseas clients including level 1, 2 and 3 support across the C3 system.

Responsibilities

Technical support, onboarding of new clients, building support tools, database administration, debugging, defining support processes and improvements as support team lead. Also responsible for supporting clients and business analysts in the UK.

Achievements

• Enhanced support tools to allow manual loading of reports directly into the system, improving response time.
• Implemented an integration test component that allowed support to add integration tests when onboarding new clients with minimal setup required.

Nubrixy — iOS Puzzle Game 2024 – Present

Sole Developer, Designer & Owner

Designed, built, and shipped a polished block-puzzle game for iPhone and iPad as a solo project — owning everything from game design to App Store release. Live on the App Store and actively maintained.

Highlights

• Architected a pure, dependency-free game-logic core separated from the SpriteKit rendering layer.
• Built three game modes (Endless, Time Attack, and curated Puzzle levels) with Game Center leaderboards/achievements and StoreKit 2 in-app purchases.
• Engineered a resilient Codable save/restore system with backward-compatible migration for legacy save files.
• Developed a custom animation, audio, and haptics system for game feel, with a privacy-first, fully offline design — no tracking, no third-party SDKs.

WordTack — Word Puzzle Game 2026 – Present

Solo Designer & Architect

A word puzzle game shipped solo to the App Store, with a paper-craft visual identity and an architecture built for cross-platform reuse. Live on the App Store and actively maintained.

Highlights

• End-to-end designer and architect — defined the product concept, the paper-craft visual identity, and the codebase structure from scratch.
• Designed a shared content model so puzzles are authored once and consumed across platforms, letting future Android support reuse all existing levels without rework.
• Shipped solo to the App Store, including iPad-native support and an in-app shop, making the architecture calls that kept the project maintainable as new features landed.

CronChief — Cron Expression Tool 2026 – Present

Sole Developer, Designer & Owner

A web tool to build and decode cron expressions in plain English — turning cryptic schedules into clear descriptions, building them from scratch with presets, and showing upcoming run times in any timezone. Designed, built, and shipped solo, and live in production.

Highlights

• Migrated from a VM-hosted .NET app to a stateless, static-first Astro site on Cloudflare Workers — pages are prerendered and served from the CDN, and the Worker only handles the JSON API.
• The cron tool runs entirely in the browser and shares one TypeScript module with the API — DST-correct next-run times in any timezone, 5- and 6-field expressions, and macros (@hourly, @daily).
• Built an SEO content library of worked examples and guides with structured data, covered by Vitest and Playwright tests in GitHub Actions CI.

Get UUID — UUID Generator 2026 – Present

Sole Developer, Designer & Owner

A fast, free UUID generator and HTTP API — RFC 9562 version 1, 4 and 7 UUIDs in multiple formats, one at a time or in bulk. Designed, built, and shipped solo, and live in production.

Highlights

• Ported from .NET to an Astro site on Cloudflare Workers — static pages come from the CDN, and pages that show a fresh UUID render on demand.
• Works without JavaScript — the generator is a plain form the Worker answers — and with JavaScript on, UUIDs are generated in the browser via Web Crypto using the same code as the Worker.
• Key-free JSON/text API with bulk generation up to 1,000 per request, tested end to end with Playwright, including the no-JavaScript path.

My IP Is — IP Address Lookup 2026 – Present

Sole Developer, Designer & Owner

A privacy-friendly IP lookup showing a visitor's public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, approximate location and ISP, plus network tools and guides. Designed, built, and shipped solo, and live in production.

Highlights

• Replaced an earlier .NET version with an Astro site on Cloudflare Workers that renders the visitor's address server-side, works without JavaScript, and answers curl with plain text.
• Designed dual-stack detection: the browser finds the other address family by probing single-stack hosts, since a proxied Cloudflare hostname can't be IPv4- or IPv6-only.
• Private by design — nothing stored or logged, location from Cloudflare's per-request data instead of a GeoIP database, and a strict Content Security Policy.