PhD (AI/ML) | MD | MBA
Senior systems architect, fractional CTO, and engineer. I design and build production-ready systems and infrastructure.
Startup founder (Alixir, Fleet), published academic, and author.
About
I’ve spent 15 years designing and building AI systems, and the infrastructure beneath them, for environments where correctness, safety, and trust matter. I’ve led architecture and engineering across more than 50 companies, from early-stage startups to enterprise and deep tech.
I’ve founded and co-founded startups globally across health-tech, ed-tech, and AI infrastructure, building each from first principles to production. I hold a PhD in AI/ML, an MD, and an MBA. My research has been published in journals including Nature, and I authored Beyond Lean, a book on building startups in regulated industries.
Expertise
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.
AI & Infrastructure Engineering
Building the systems that put AI into production: model serving, retrieval, observability, and the data and infrastructure layers beneath them. Engineered for environments where correctness, safety, and trust are non-negotiable.
Technical Strategy
Making architectural and AI decisions under real-world constraints. I weigh technology choices and long-term direction with engineering rigour and a working understanding of how systems behave when failure is expensive.
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.
Fleet
Founder and architect of Fleet, a developer platform for training and deploying AI models on cloud GPUs, a Heroku for ML. Developers point local Python at a model and dataset, and Fleet handles GPU provisioning, containers, storage, and serving.
Exceptra
Founder and architect of Exceptra, an AI-native logging platform that parses and triages logs with LLMs, surfaces incidents directly in Slack, and ships built-in LLM observability for production AI systems.
Enagram
Founder of Enagram, a memory layer for LLM applications, think Supabase for agent memory. Built on the Continuum Memory architecture, it benchmarks against Mem0 and Zep using purely heuristic retrieval, with no LLM in the loop.
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.
Shark Trust
Built custom computer vision models for shark identification, alongside web development, for a UK-based shark conservation charity, turning field imagery into reliable species recognition.
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.
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.
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.
From peer-reviewed research in AI and machine learning to a book challenging how we build startups in regulated industries.
Contact
Whether you are starting a new project, navigating a critical technical decision, or rethinking your architecture from first principles, tell me a little about it and I'll be in touch.