📍 Sydney, Australia | 🤖 AI Engineer @ Dragonfly | 🚀 Ex-CTO & Co-Founder

Building knowledge-first AI systems — models are smart, but they need knowledge to apply intelligence effectively.

Building the AI platform at Dragonfly Intelligence — Australia's first AI-native holdco. Knowledge-first AI for service industries where human judgement has never scaled.

• 🪨 grugnews — Convert complex text to plain language (grug speak). CLI, library, and local web UI. Bring your own LLM (Anthropic, OpenAI, or local Ollama / LM Studio)
• 🎙️ tailwispr — Turn your phone into a wireless microphone for your computer over Tailscale

• 🏦 Co-Founder & CTO at Slate — AI-powered credit origination for banks, turning manual loan processing into sub-minute credit decisions
• 🏠 Founding Engineer → CTO at OwnHome — Employee #2, built the tech from scratch through a $38M Series A (Square Peg), scaling to $8.5B+ in loan applications
• 🏛️ Software Engineer → Team Lead at Macquarie Group — Digital banking platforms and payments at enterprise scale
• 🏦 Software Architect at Westpac — Open Banking API platform

"Fast experimentation over perfect architecture — no sacred cows. A 50-70% system that exists beats a perfect system in development."