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. deep dive coming Wētā FX Python · Airflow · ClickHouse · Ansible
2024 Apache Airflow OSS Contributions Contributed production-informed fixes and enhancements to Airflow operators and platform stability, improving reliability and usability for wider community adoption. deep dive coming Apache Airflow Community Python · Open Source · Apache Airflow
2024 Data Quality & Observability System Designed platform-wide quality framework from scratch; moved the team from reactive firefighting to proactive anomaly detection. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming 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. deep dive coming Unitec MATLAB