SOLUTION ARCHITECT PRINCIPAL ENGINEER

Enterprise Architecture at Scale.

20 years of IT experience across development, integration, cloud engineering, and solution architecture — spanning banking, government, telecommunications, and insurance.

BankingGovernmentTelecomInsuranceLogisticsCAD/CAM
20+ Years
5 Sectors
AWS SA Professional
CKA Certified

Solution Architect / Principal Engineer with 20 years of experience across banking, government, telecommunications, insurance, and logistics. Combines deep technical delivery with the ability to translate ambiguous business problems into structured technical roadmaps — and lead cross-functional teams to execute them.

Specializes in enterprise-scale system design, application modernization, and cloud-native architecture. Delivered complex integration programmes across roles spanning solution architecture, DevOps, and integration engineering.

> Currently Modernising a 30-year legacy ecosystem for a global CAD/CAM manufacturer — architecting cloud-native licensing, billing, and CRM systems with customer and dealer portals to fully automate the business flow.

Cloud-Native by Design

AWS-certified architect with hands-on delivery of Lambda, Fargate, CDK, and multi-AZ resilience patterns.

Diverse Role Experience

Progressed from Java Developer through Integration, Cloud Engineering, and Consulting to Solution Architect — experience earned across every layer of delivery.

Delivery Leadership

Translates ambiguous business problems into executable technical roadmaps, leading cross-functional teams to deliver at scale.

Looking Ahead

Actively exploring the AI space — generative AI, large language models, and ML engineering — to stay aligned with a fast-moving industry and bring intelligent capabilities into enterprise architecture.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Amazon Web ServicesKubernetes (CKA)CDK / TerraformOpenShiftLinuxDocker / ECS / FargateAWS LambdaMulti-AZ RDS

Languages & Frameworks

Java / SpringBoot 3PythonReact / NodeJSSvelteKitSpring MVCIBM Integration BusPega BPMShell Script

Integration & DevOps

GitLab CI/CDKong API GatewayApache KafkaREST / SOAPPrometheus + GrafanaJenkinsNexus RepositorySumo Logic

Architecture & Design

Solution ArchitectureEnterprise IntegrationUMLMulti-tenant SaaSMicroservicesEvent-Driven ArchitectureAPI DesignCloud Migration
2024 – Present Manufacturing / SaaS
● Current

Senior Solution Architect

Global CAD/CAM Technology Leader

Modernized a 30-year legacy ecosystem for a global CAD/CAM company, architecting the transition of a 10,000+ hardware dongle install base to a cloud-native entitlement and subscription platform.

  • Architected an offline-resilient licensing engine supporting subscription, perpetual, and floating/concurrent models using cryptographically signed tokens for CNC manufacturing environments
  • Engineered a multi-tenant dealer ecosystem with regional ownership logic, automated commission attribution, and localized price lists for a global distribution network
  • Designed high-concurrency seat management with real-time session tracking and grace-period logic to handle intermittent network outages without disrupting workflow
  • Orchestrated a composable SaaS integration strategy connecting Keygen, Paddle, Zoho and Clerk into a unified customer and dealer lifecycle platform
Keygen.shPaddle (MoR)Zoho CRMClerkRedisSvelteKitRESTGitHub
2022 – 2024 Logistics / Government

Senior Engineer

National Postal & Logistics Provider

One of Australia's oldest institutions, this national postal provider delivers shipping services to customers, merchants, and platform partners through REST API integrations.

  • Designed and implemented the Amazon Manifest solution on AWS Cloud using CDK — successfully delivered to production
  • Migrated ECS Amazon Manifest application to native AWS Lambda runtime for improved cost efficiency
  • Enhanced ECS Spring Boot 3 applications to Fargate, improving scalability, portability and cost efficiency
  • Designed and deployed AWS distributed load testing framework to benchmark performance of the tracking API at scale
  • Implemented React frontend components integrated with backend AWS services
AWS CloudKong API GatewayPythonReactJS / NodeJSSpringBoot 3CDK / TerraformGitLabSumo Logic
2020 – 2022 Public Sector / Telecom

Senior Consultant

Government & Telecommunications

Delivered infrastructure and application solutions for a government agency and telecom providers. Led the Entitlements Calculation Engine project to replace legacy government systems.

  • Designed AWS cloud platform with 10 EC2 instances and multi-AZ RDS failover, configuring security groups, NACLs, and VPC networking for microservices architecture
  • Automated CI/CD pipeline via GitLab for OpenShift deployments — reduced deployment time from hours to under 30 minutes
  • Deployed and optimised Pega and Node.js containerized applications on AWS and OpenShift
  • Implemented Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards providing real-time monitoring and proactive alerting
AWS CloudOpenShiftPegaNexusGitLabHelm ChartsNode.jsKafkaPrometheusGrafana
2017 – 2020 Banking / Financial Services

Cloud Integration Developer

Regional Banking Institution

Australia's fourth primary bank. Led migration of the BPM platform from Meta Storm to Appian, and developed core integration components for Mastercard payment processing.

  • Developed REST API common integration components for the Mastercard Payment Gateway
  • Designed Appian BPM Platform on Linux servers in multi-failover configuration for dev, test, and production environments
  • Implemented BPM Linux environments and Jenkins CI/CD for Card Cancellation and Online Account Opening projects
  • Developed Jenkins automated deployment jobs for BPM configurations
IBM Integration BusAppian 16.1JBOSS EAP 6.4MySQLRHELJava 8JenkinsSOAP UIGit
2014 – 2017 Insurance

Java Developer

Major General Insurance Group

Developed and enhanced Motor and Home insurance products across multiple retail brands, covering online quote, discounting, and property pricing systems.

  • Delivered enhancements to Motor and Home insurance products across multiple consumer insurance brands
  • Integrated with the Cordell Express Calculator for building and property pricing information
  • Developed online quote and online discounts functionality for insurance products
  • Built IBM Integration Bus message flows for insurance services
JavaSpring MVCIBM MB7EclipseMavenGitConfluence
2006 – 2014 Payments / Telecom / Infrastructure

Java Web Services Developer

Payments · Telecommunications · National Broadband

Built e-commerce platforms and enterprise integration solutions across payment processing, telecommunications, and national broadband infrastructure projects.

  • Developed enhancements to an enterprise e-commerce platform using Java, Spring MVC, XML and XSLT
  • Designed Master Data Management tool for NBN Fiber Serving Area (FSA), FSAM, and FDA components
  • Exposed MDM repository as SOAP Web Services providing location hierarchy details to external systems
  • Led Electronic Billing and transaction search development for a national telecommunications provider
JavaSpring MVCMavenSOAP Web ServicesXML / XSLTOracle Data IntegratorHTML

Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Professional

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

CKA

OpenJS Foundation

OpenJS Certified NodeJS Developer

Professional

IBM

IBM Certified Solution Developer

WebSphere Message Broker 7

Sun Microsystems

Sun Certified Web Component Developer

Java 5

Sun Microsystems

Sun Certified Java Programmer

Java 5

Bachelor of Technology

Computer Science & Engineering