Founder three times, acquired twice, still shipping. Dallas, Toronto, Melbourne, Wollongong.

DELIVERED FOR / TECHNOLOGY USED BY

AIGZIPCARAIGZIPCAR

2025

2025 · NOW · FOUNDER · WOLLONGONG

Flossin

AI authentication and marketplace for luxury collectibles. Computer vision in PyTorch, CNN and ResNet lineage, the production model now reinforcement-learning based. Mitra, inside Flossin: LLM integration, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, prompt engineering, model evaluation. iAccelerate scholarship, 2025 cohort; a further scholarship offered into the 2026 accelerator.

2020

2020 · 2025 · CYBER SECURITY & IT AUDIT ADVISOR · MELBOURNE

ICT Consult

CIO and CTO level advisory for top-10 global NGOs and US government publicly funded organisations. IT risk and security audit programs against ISO 27001, NIST and FISMA; executive vendor and third-party risk; incident-response tabletop exercises training client CIOs. Hands-on across SIEM, penetration-testing frameworks and reverse engineering.

ISO 27001NISTFISMASPLUNKDATADOG

2018

2018 · 2024 · CO-FOUNDER & CTO · MELBOURNE

Luca Plus

100% automated, AI-driven invoice financing for SMEs, incubated by EY and the Melbourne Accelerator Program. Production credit decisioning: predictive statistical models over real-time accounting data with a reinforcement-learning feedback loop. The first ATO-approved Peppol certified provider. 300+ businesses; 0.05% default through COVID; $1M in Azure credits negotiated; board recruited including the former GM of APAC at Microsoft and the former CTO of SEEK. HK Innovation Fund, Alibaba Cloud and HSBC Technology Awards, 2019.

INTEGRATIONS

LUCA+CBANABWESTPACATO

2021

2021 · 2023 · PRODUCT & CO-FOUNDER · MELBOURNE

Abachi Finance

World-first decentralised middleware for issuing and trading private bonds on chain. Smart-contract architecture for institutional-grade issuance; technical due diligence for seed; deep multi-jurisdictional regulatory navigation. Wound down at break-even valuation after the regulatory shift.

2014

2014 · 2019 · HEAD OF R&D, AUSTRALIA · MELBOURNE

Noble Systems

Global R&D for forecasting and machine learning in the ShiftTrack Plus workforce suite. Predictive workforce models; guaranteed 25% client efficiency on a shared-profit model; legacy Visual Basic modernised into web microservices, cutting costs up to 90%; Australian EBA compliance automated.

TECHNOLOGY USED BY

BENDIGO BANK

2012

2012 · 2013 · VP & PARTNER · TORONTO

Jiffy Apps

Offshore delivery teams built and scaled across Pakistan, India and the Philippines at the start of the mobile-app era. $10.5M+ in new business through product-discovery workshops and executive roadmapping.

DELIVERED FOR

ZIPCARAIG

2007

2007 · 2012 · DIRECTOR & ACTING CTO

Stratasoft / TRG

Executive-team member through turnaround to acquisition by Noble Systems, $6M. Engineering scaled 4 to 55; principal-level leadership across the 400-engineer TRG portfolio; $5M P&L owned. Built SATMAP, AI prediction of contact-centre satisfaction, later rebranded Afiniti. Predictive dialling at 25% efficiency gains; a FoxPro legacy rebuilt into profitable SaaS; +50% inbound leads. First technology incubator at NUST, Islamabad; IEEE recognition, 2011.

INTEGRATIONS

AVAYAGENESYSNICENUANCE

2006

2006 · 2007 · SYSTEMS ANALYST · DALLAS-FORT WORTH

Verizon / Superpages

Joined through the acquisition of MyPages. Earliest PPC and PPV ad-campaign implementations on the first-generation Google search appliance. Awarded every quarter of tenure.

2004

2004 · 2006 · FOUNDER · DALLAS-FORT WORTH · EXIT No.1

Interlinkage / MyPages

The first Muslim Yellow Pages, in PHP and MySQL, built at university. Acquired by Verizon / Superpages.