PhD (AI/ML) | MD | MBA
AI consultant, strategist, and architect. PhD in AI/ML, MD, MBA. I advise and build AI systems. Founder of Alixir & Mode7 Labs.
About
I’ve spent 15 years advising founders and engineering teams on AI strategy, system architecture, and technical execution. In that time I’ve consulted for, or held advisory and board positions at, over 50 companies across enterprise and deep tech.
I hold a PhD in AI/ML, an MD, and an MBA. I have founded or co-founded startups globally across health-tech, ed-tech, and AI infrastructure. My research has been published in journals including Nature, and I authored Beyond Lean, a book on building startups in regulated industries.
Services
Technical Strategy
Guiding architectural and AI decisions under real-world constraints. I help teams evaluate technology choices and long-term direction with engineering rigour and an understanding of how systems behave when correctness, safety, and trust matter.
Systems Architecture
Designing distributed systems, data platforms, and AI infrastructure built for production reality. I bring clarity to complex technical landscapes and leave behind architectures that are explainable, observable, and resilient over time.
Engineering Leadership
Advising founders and executive teams on engineering culture, hiring, and execution in high-stakes environments. I help organizations build practices that prioritise clarity, accountability, and long-term technical health.
Product Engineering
Building software from concept to production in domains where failure is expensive. I focus on correctness, usability, and operational reliability—the details that separate compelling demos from software people actually trust.
Recent Work
A selection of recent projects spanning enterprise software, applied AI, and complex system design. My role varies between founder, advisor, and hands-on architect depending on where clarity and leverage are most needed.
TraceLM
Founder and architect of a large language model (LLM) observability and explainability platform, with human-in-the-loop aspects and time-travel debugging, providing SOC-2 compliant visibility into production AI systems.
Westfield
Re-engineered, modernised and architected Westfield's e-commerce data pipeline to facilitate ease of integration into third-party platforms without compromising compliance or security.
Raceway
Lead maintainer for the open-source distributed systems debugging platform Raceway, which is written in Rust, and aims to detect subtle thread concurrency issues through vector clock analysis.
UTS
I have collaborated with the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) for almost a decade, on research spanning computer vision, applied AI, and data science.
Alixir
Co-Founder and CTO of Sydney-based Alixir, building applied AI systems for medical imaging in emerging economies, delivering state-of-the-art inference on benchmark datasets.
Arcadian
Founder of Arcadian, an AI-native web platform for creating games and playable ads. Supports Canvas and Three.js, alongside Zap, an internally built game engine.
From peer-reviewed research in AI and machine learning to a book challenging how we build startups in regulated industries.
Contact
Whether you are navigating a critical technical decision, scaling a team through rapid growth, or rethinking your architecture from first principles, I would welcome the conversation.