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About

Software engineer with a degree in Software Engineering (AI major) and hands-on experience in full-stack development, LLM fine-tuning, and production AI systems on Azure. I turn complex requirements into secure, scalable software — from e-commerce and web apps to RAG pipelines and agent workflows.

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Software engineering

Associate Software Developer

Datacom · Sep 2025 — Present

Enterprise AI platform work — multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, and production deployments on Azure.

  • Conver: agent hand-off workflows, RAG with grounded citations, SSO/OAuth2 backend security
  • SOW Studio: schema-constrained Azure OpenAI generation, pricing engine, doc automation, CI/CD to Azure
  • Copilot Studio evaluation, UAT delivery, and MCP tooling for siloed internal systems

Graduate Data Analyst

Datacom · Sep 2023 — Jul 2025

Power Platform and ML delivery for change management and contract analysis systems.

  • Change Management App: Dataverse model, Power Apps RBAC, Power Automate approvals, fine-tuning to 93% accuracy
  • TACO: contract-aware architecture, FastAPI ingestion, fine-tuned models for T&M charge classification

Research Summer Scholar

Media Design School · Dec 2022 — Feb 2023

Facial recognition bias audit focused on Māori and Pacific tā moko detection accuracy.

  • PyTorch, MTCNN, and ResNet evaluation across demographic groups
  • Findings contributed to published research on algorithmic bias

Intern Data Analyst

Datacom · Jul 2022 — Dec 2022

Real-time spatial analytics and Wi-Fi tracking application.

  • Wi-Fi probe-request triangulation on Raspberry Pi; RAPiD CV heatmaps from fisheye footage
  • Streamlit app on Azure Functions with CSV dataset tooling

Before the pivot

Years on construction sites, in earthmoving crews, and across hospitality and rural work — long before software engineering. That path built resilience, teamwork, and the ability to show up, follow a plan, and adapt when conditions change. It shaped how I collaborate today: direct communication, shared accountability, and respect for people doing hard work.

Hammer hand & labourer

Lawton Building Development · 2.5 years

Concrete labourer

Tricky's Concrete · 2 years

Digger hand

Joson Earthmovers · 2 years

Grinding, painting, cleaning

Alert Engineering

Fish factory, deckhand, hospitality, cattle work

Chatham Islands · 5 months

Kitchen hand & dishwasher

WinterGarden Café · 6 months

Kitchen hand & dishwasher

Chuffed Café · 6 months

Built on site

  • Physically demanding, fast-paced environments
  • Following instructions and working to site plans
  • Flexible across trades, rural, and hospitality teams
  • Full driver's licence

Trades training

  • MIT — Level 3 MIG/Arc/TIG welding, heavy & light fabrication
  • MIT — Level 3 & 4 University Entry Engineering

Education & certifications

  • Bachelor of Software Engineering (Artificial Intelligence Specialist)

    Torrens University Australia · 2022

  • Micro-credential in Cloud Computing for Business Professionals (AWS)

    University of Auckland · 2023

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)

    Microsoft · 2024

Skills

AI/ML Engineering

LangChainLangGraphMCPCopilot StudioFine-tuningQLoRAAzure OpenAIDeepEval

Cloud & Backend

Python (FastAPI, Django, Flask)Node.jsC#PostgreSQLDockerAzureGitHub Actions

Power Platform

Power AppsPower AutomatePower BIDataverseFabric

Web & Product

React 18TypeScriptNext.jsViteTailwindM365 GraphStripe

Mobile

ExpoReact Native

Delivery

Sprint planningStakeholder demosCross-functional delivery

Hackathons & academic projects

  • Datacom Hackathon (2022) — Cross-functional team delivering a full-stack MVP within 48 hours.
  • AI Hackathon — Biodiversity (2023) — Data-driven solution assessing agriculture and livestock impact on waterway biodiversity.
  • AI Challenge — Environmental (2023) — Part-level neural network detection to reduce false positives in rat detection.
  • A.I. GovHack — Biodiversity (2024) — Power App for bin tagging and recycling data with multi-modal GPT image classification.
  • ServiceNow Hack (2025) — Agentic system architectures with autonomous decision-making and automated CSM workflows.
  • Academic data projects (2022) — NLP sentiment and topic analysis, Apriori transactional analysis, and weather anomaly detection.