Architecting Resilient Distributed Systems, Modern .NET & Cloud for High-Growth Scale-ups.

Leading technical initiatives focused on enterprise security governance, modern observability, and cloud migration for Australia's leading specialist life insurer.

• Appointed Security Champion: Implemented SNYK and SonarQube for static analysis, vulnerability detection, and automated security quality gates.
• Spearheaded architectural planning for migrating legacy SSIS data systems to Azure-native microservices, drastically enhancing resilience, telemetry, and real-time reportability.
• Navigated regulatory frameworks and corporate governance requirements to guarantee adherence to rigorous financial compliance mandates.

Architected high-scale full-stack systems and accelerated feature velocity within an agile, cloud-native Azure environment.

• Architected and delivered high-scale full-stack capabilities utilizing .NET 8, Angular, and Google Firestore within an enterprise Azure environment.
• Integrated AI-assisted engineering workflows (Claude) to accelerate rapid prototyping, unit test generation, and architectural consistency.
• Led API development initiatives, ensuring distributed system fault tolerance and contract reliability across independent microservices.

Served as primary backend technical anchor guiding a 5-engineer frontend team to build unified web and mobile client solutions.

• Acted as lead backend engineer, partnering with 5 frontend developers to construct a unified web and mobile customer experience.
• Spearheaded the migration of mission-critical legacy .NET Framework services to .NET Core 8.0, dramatically increasing system throughput and developer maintainability.
• Evaluated, selected, and implemented enterprise Identity Services to deliver seamless single-sign-on (SSO) and authentication across mobile and web interfaces.
• Collaborated closely with Product, BA, and QA teams to deploy major features with zero regressions across core microservices.

Engineered mission-critical software solutions for bank mortgage origination, partner integrations, and complex compliance approval workflows.

• Engineered configurable multi-level approval workflows for enterprise banking clients, fulfilling intricate compliance and governance criteria.
• Developed modular UI widgets and embeddable plugins for bank mortgage application processing, enabling rapid white-label rollouts across tier-1 banking partners.
• Standardized local development environments across the engineering organization using Docker, cutting onboarding friction and eliminating environment discrepancies.
• Implemented serverless event-driven architectures utilizing AWS Lambda and SQS to handle asynchronous processing tasks.

Served as technical SME for Partner and Commission (B2B) platforms at Australia's leading small business lender, managing high-stakes financial integrations and frontend modernization.

• Served as the technical SME for B2B Partner and Commission modules, ensuring high accuracy for critical commission calculations and financial disbursements.
• Architected complex event-driven integrations between .NET microservices and Salesforce using Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, and WebJobs.
• Led the strategic migration of authentication from Salesforce Community to Auth0, reducing licensing costs by $45,000 annually while strictly maintaining PCI compliance.
• Pioneered internal adoption of React and TypeScript, successfully transitioning company systems from legacy Angular architectures.
• Partnered with design teams to architect the company's inaugural Design System, standardizing UI consistency and speeding up feature release velocity by 30%.
• Mentored junior and mid-level engineers in software design patterns, code review standards, and continuous learning.

Engineered high-throughput payment ingestion engines and transaction reporting infrastructure for national transport payments.

• Re-engineered statement generation pipelines, reducing processing duration from 5 days to under 8 hours (15x performance increase), dramatically boosting corporate client satisfaction.
• Constructed high-throughput ingestion microservices capable of processing millions of daily transactions from in-vehicle payment terminals via Azure Service Bus and Cosmos DB.
• Key engineer on 'Cabcharge Plus', the company's flagship enterprise payment and account portal, maintaining 99.99% operational availability.

• Engineered high-concurrency WCF REST booking APIs that served as the primary reservation gateway for all corporate web properties.
• Developed real-time vehicle geolocation tracking APIs and created a WinForms TCP application for live operational monitoring.

Engineered automated processing pipelines and led core ticketing platform modernization.

• Process Automation: Optimized Genesys service processing, cutting execution cycle time from 6 hours to 2 hours via SQL Server stored procedure tuning and code refactoring.
• System Upgrades: Managed end-to-end upgrade of core Ticketing System and Intranet from .NET v2.0 to v4.0 with zero disruption.

Led legacy modernization, real-time courier tracking, and corporate web platform re-engineering.

• Legacy Modernization: Spearheaded strategic migration of mission-critical legacy systems from Visual Basic 6 to the .NET framework, ensuring business continuity.
• Product Innovation: Architected and engineered a ground-up real-time geolocation tracking system for live driver and package visibility.
• Full-Stack Web Re-engineering: Led end-to-end transition of corporate web presence from Classic ASP to ASP.NET, implementing SOAP APIs to enable high-performance, AJAX-driven user experiences.