Architecting Intelligence.

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems architecture and machine learning implementation.

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Kiwibank

April 2025 – Present
Wellington, NZ
  • Kubernetes ConfigOps: Migrated configuration from centralized database to Kubernetes ConfigMaps, resolving concurrency bottlenecks and eliminating single points of failure.
  • .NET GraphQL Optimization: Optimized GraphQL resolvers in .NET Framework, reducing load on core banking infrastructure by 20% through elimination of redundant downstream requests.
  • Legacy Migration Strategy: Migrated User Accounts and Transaction APIs to latest .NET versions for security compliance and performance improvements.
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Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research

June 2023 – April 2025
Lincoln, NZ
  • Data Export Optimization: Increased CSV download throughput from 300 to 30,000 units by decoupling document processing from client requests.
  • Pipeline Architecture: Replaced on-the-fly XML-to-CSV conversion with preprocessed data and SOLR-based document storage.
  • .NET/SOLR Integration: Automated backend processing of incoming documents with SOLR indexing for efficient retrieval.
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  • MongoDB Sharding: Analyzed and optimized MongoDB sharded indexes across multi-region deployments handling terabytes of security data.
  • Latency Reduction: Reduced dashboard rendering time by 40% for critical security event screens, directly improving the incident response time for global customers.
  • Critical Infrastructure Support: Mitigated production outages (e.g., Japanese region reporting failure) via rollback strategies and root cause analysis using OpsGenie.
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Interactive Audio Playground

A digital signal processing (DSP) workbench built with p5.js. It visualizes the impact of serial effects chains—Low Pass Filter, Distortion, Dynamic Compressor, and Reverb—on the frequency spectrum in real-time.

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Interactive Audio Playground