Year Project Made at Built with
2024 DataOps Platform Built and owns 25+ ETL pipelines on-prem; eliminated recurring data failures and made the platform production-critical for BI and ML teams. Wētā FX Python · Airflow · ClickHouse · Ansible
2024 Data Quality & Observability System Designed platform-wide quality framework from scratch; moved the team from reactive firefighting to proactive anomaly detection. Wētā FX Great Expectations · Python · GitLab CI
2024 Resource Planning & Crew Scheduling Tool Built the first in-house capacity planning tool for managing and optimising crew workload scheduling across the studio. Wētā FX Python · ReactJS · PostgreSQL
2023 RTO Compliance Analytics Delivered real-time dashboards enabling Talent & Culture to track Return to Office policy implementation and measure organisational compliance. Wētā FX Python · SQL · Tableau
2023 ETL Cloud Migration (Docker → OpenShift) Migrated 8 production pipelines from Docker-compose to OpenShift with zero downtime; improved observability via Dynatrace and dbt-elementary. MBIE Airflow · DBT · OpenShift · Azure Pipelines
2022 Modern DataOps Platform Design Architected a comprehensive platform design covering observability, data catalog, lineage, governance, and strategy — forming the foundation for future data work. MBIE Airflow · DBT · Dynatrace
2022 AWS ECS Data Platform Stood up a containerised data tooling environment (Retool, N8N, Airflow) on AWS ECS; gave analysts self-service access to data for the first time. IHC New Zealand AWS CloudFormation · Docker · Airflow
2022 Enterprise ETL Pipeline Suite (→ Snowflake) Built 9 Snowflake pipelines from 5 source systems; powered 33 Power BI reports used org-wide for workforce and financial analytics. IHC New Zealand Airflow · DBT · Snowflake · Python
2021 User Provisioning Automation Automated ServiceNow/Payglobal → Azure AD user provisioning via Airflow; eliminated manual IT overhead and onboarding errors. IHC New Zealand Python · Airflow · Snowflake · Azure AD
2021 Kubernetes MLOps Platform Co-built the organisation's first ML infrastructure on EKS with Kubeflow; made model deployment a repeatable, automated operation. Chorus NZ Kubernetes · Kubeflow · AWS EKS
2020 Oracle DW → AWS Redshift Migration Designed and built a replication system migrating the legacy Oracle DW to AWS Redshift via PySpark; unblocked cloud-native analytics adoption. Chorus NZ Python · PySpark · Airflow · Redshift
2020 Financial Data Analytics System Built an internal financial analytics system integrating SAP Hana data; delivered Tableau dashboards for the finance team. Chorus NZ Python · SAP Hana · Tableau
2019 Azure National Data Platform Co-built a high-profile national-scale Azure analytics platform for a government agency; deployed for ongoing operations across the country. KPMG NZ Azure · NodeJS · SQL
2019 Suspicious Transaction & Geo-Location Analysis Delivered transaction monitoring and geo-location analysis systems across four government and private sector clients. KPMG NZ Python · R · SQL
2019 CEC 2019 Conference Website Built the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2019 website and managed four social media channels for international conference publicity. Victoria University Bootstrap · HTML · CSS · JavaScript
2018 AI 2018 Conference Website Developed the full conference website for the 31st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Victoria University Bootstrap · HTML · CSS · JavaScript
2018 Reinforcement Learning Systems (15+) Implemented 15+ novel deep RL systems (100k+ lines) as the core research contribution of a PhD in Machine Learning. Victoria University Python · TensorFlow · PyTorch · Theano
2017 CNN Ensemble Image Classification System Built a deep learning ensemble for image classification published as a conference paper in evolutionary computation. Victoria University Python · TensorFlow · Keras · Scikit-Learn
2014 Decentralised Network Traffic Monitoring System Led a team to build a real-time decentralised monitoring system (150k+ lines) still in use at Unitec; contributed to a $10.6M MBIE-funded cyber-security project. Unitec Java · JADE · Unity3D · MySQL
2013 Financial Forecast Systems (Stock & Crude Oil) Implemented stock market and crude oil price trend prediction systems using neural network approaches in MATLAB. Unitec MATLAB