Resume

Work Experience

Jan 2026 · Present
Head of Engineering
Covalent API
Working on toppling an industry giant that really, really deserves it.
2024 · 2026
Senior Engineering Lead
MongoDB
Larger team, more scope, heavier-pocketed customers.
2021 · 2024
Engineering Lead
MongoDB
Led a large team of amazingly talented engineers in developing Relational Migrator for legacy SQL to MongoDB migrations. Made Larry Ellison a little less rich.
2018 · 2021
Engineering Manager
Atlassian
Ran a large engineering team within the Open DevOps Cloud initiative. Probably found the first genuine use-case for graph databases.
2017 · 2018
Senior Software Engineer
Atlassian
Individual contributor to Atlassian's Confluence Server and Data Center. Earned the battle scars of working on enterprise on-premise software.
2013 · 2017
Software Engineer
Western Digital (formerly SanDisk)
Individual contributor to the iNAND flash controller firmware as well as related internal software. Made sure that NAND cells leaking charge wouldn't be a problem for anyone.
2012 · 2013
Software Engineer
Defence

2008 · 2012
B.Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering
Specialisation in digital communications systems. Can write out the math for OFDM modulation, used none of it throughout my career.

See LinkedIn. Happy to provide references if needed — email me.