statchief
a fantasy afl app i've been building since dec 2025. fast analytics, an ai chat that actually knows the numbers, player comparisons, a trade planner, and an arcade, because why not. about 100k page views a month.
now
senior software engineer at nab, doing the ai engineering on the nab complaints agent.
also back at uni: master of information systems at the university of melbourne, 2026–2029.
work
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senior software engineer @ nab
- now: ai engineer on the nab complaints agent, building the python mcp tools that give it the context it needs.
- took a configurable form platform from proof of concept to 30+ case types. form changes went from months to weeks.
- built and ran case platforms that 3,000+ staff use every day, across 1M+ customer cases a year.
- hardship and grants apps for customers. got one about 75% built in a sprint, against a 16-week estimate.
- ai champion for a 300+ engineer domain. wrote ai skills that took a week of ui analysis down to a day, and integration debugging on bigger projects from about three weeks to one.
- on-call, 3am deploys, and mentoring interns, a few of whom are senior engineers now.
study
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master of information systems @ university of melbourne
ai, cybersecurity and running projects. in progress.
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bachelor of it @ rmit
software engineering, minor in cisco networking and security. finished with distinction.
side quests
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student ambassador @ aws
brought aws and aws educate to campus, ran events and talks, and helped students and staff get unstuck. one of 300+ ambassadors worldwide.
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peer mentor @ rmit
helped students through intro programming, sql and java.
certs
pega certified system architect (2021) · aws developer and solutions architect associate (2020) · cisco ccna (2019). a few have expired. the knowledge mostly hasn't.
toolbox
typescript, react, solid, node, java + spring boot, python, rust, aws, cloudflare workers + d1, kafka, postgres, playwright, three.js, ai agents and mcp
fun projects
say hi
best way is email. also on linkedin (a little dusty) and github.