Generalist software engineer and manager with strong business acumen and people skills. 8 years of progressive experience in Silicon Valley, 10 years of US experience and 5 years of Australian experience across a diverse range of flagship tech and traditional IT organisations. Deep engineering experience across many architectures, platforms, frameworks, eng cultures and dev ecosystems. Skilled in building and operationalising internet-scale distributed systems on either public or private clouds while navigating ambiguous requirements, tough stakeholders, and other execution hurdles. Holder of 2 patents filed for building cloud infrastructure at the mega American retail store Walmart. Filed 3 more patents in Canva on various presentations products. I contribute occasionally to OSS most notably Apache Kafka. I also blog on independent and company websites. I also love to help people who may need some ideas on that next step. Always happy to have a chat and pay it forward. java, functional scala, can find my way around python, javascript and kotlin | linux | concurrent programming (actors, fluxes, monos, futures, promises) | reactive systems | infra as code | scaling backends | chatbot systems | writing frameworks | non-blocking/async-io | computer networks | distributed computing patterns | JVM tuning