BACKGROUND
ex-Head of AI, Stake·ex-Head of Engineering, Stake·Shipped frontier AI in regulated finance·Org-wide Claude Code & Codex rollouts·AI Software Engineer of the Year 2025·Founder · Player2.tax (acquired) · Remi·Financial Services · Defence · MedTech·Sydney · ANZ
Some of the companies I've worked with across financial services, defence & security, and medtech
10+ Years
Across startups, enterprise, defence, and government
45%+
Customer ticket deflection from production AI in a regulated financial services environment
1st
SMSF AI assistant in Australia - shipped to thousands of customers
4+
Frontier AI platforms rolled out org-wide - Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini
- Head of AI at Stake - built the function from scratch and shipped Australia's first SMSF AI assistant (Stake Compass) to thousands of customers in a regulated environment
- Ran org-wide frontier AI rollouts across Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT Enterprise and Gemini - tooling, evals, enablement and change management
- Built AI-powered customer support achieving 45%+ ticket deflection inside heavily regulated financial services
- Grew from engineer to Head of Engineering at Stake - built the referral platform, the Stake Black premium product, and core trading infrastructure through hypergrowth
- Founded Player2.tax - Australia's first conversational AI tax platform - grew it to profitability and sold it
- Founder of Remi - a personal AI reorder concierge turning everyday conversation into the things showing up at your door
- Started in MedTech and Defence - longevity monitoring for respiratory devices at ResMed, secure gateway architecture at Dept. of Defence, plus engineering at BAE Systems, PwC and Telstra
- AI Software Engineer of the Year 2025
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I'm focused on helping ANZ enterprises put frontier AI into production - safely, and at scale. If that's the work you're doing, I'd love to talk.