Open to roles in Darwin & remote Australia
I build and secure the systems that keep an organisation running — from the hardware up to the network and the numbers on top of it.
20+ years across infrastructure, project delivery and campus operations. Currently Campus Coordinator at Canterbury Institute of Management, Darwin, and completing an MSc in Computer Science with Cyber Security at the University of York.
Most people pick one end — the hardware, the network, the security model, or the ledger. Twenty years of the first two, a Master's in the third and a degree in the fourth means I can hold the whole conversation.
Building and installing PCs from components, setting up communication devices and peripherals, and being first point of contact for a whole campus — resolving faults before they turn into tickets.
Network configuration and administration, web and mail servers, VPN troubleshooting, hosting and colocation. I still run my own production stack — PTE Target serves public traffic from hardware I administer myself.
Completing an MSc in Computer Science with Cyber Security at York, researching whether the MFA methods we recommend are ones people will actually keep using. In practice: role-based admin systems, OAuth, and passkey authentication — including the one guarding this site.
A Bachelor of Accounting on top of the technical background. Database reporting, reconciliations, and the administrative machinery that sits behind an education provider.
Four projects, three integration patterns: an AI scoring pipeline, an automated content pipeline, and self-hosted inference. I cost the API out before I commit to it.
PTE Target serves public traffic from a single machine I own, fronted by Cloudflare and administered remotely. Anyone can deploy to a PaaS; I know what it costs to run it myself.
I shut Calcroo down once the analytics showed the traffic was bots. Picking a defensible niche, and knowing when to stop, has saved me more time than any framework.
Not just two languages — products built for two markets. PTE Target is Vietnamese-first for an Australian audience, documented in both.
Honestly labelled: what's in production, what's still being built, and one I shut down on purpose.
A Vietnamese-language PTE practice platform with AI scoring, running on a LAMP stack I host and administer myself, exposed publicly through Cloudflare.
A full e-commerce platform for an Australian textile retailer — storefront, Stripe and PayPal checkout, inventory with stock thresholds, order management, and a role-based admin for staff.
Detecting AI-generated text and rewriting it into natural prose — served from a self-hosted LLM rather than a paid API, which is where the interesting engineering constraints are.
Australian finance and utility calculators, built in Next.js. I shut it down after the analytics showed near-zero human traffic. The post-mortem is the useful part.
The fastest way to reach me is email — I answer within a day. Happy to talk about a role, a project, or something you're stuck on.