# Background Imaginative yet decisive, ambitious yet private, curious yet never squandering opportunities – I have had my hand in all forms of engineering for the past couple of decades with a penchant for performance and security. I served in the Australian Regular Army after completing my Bachelor of Information Systems (Honors) and retiring at the rank of Captain.  In 2013 I founded [Flood IO](https://web.archive.org/web/20220823111111/https://www.flood.io/); a distributed performance testing platform that was [acquired](https://web.archive.org/web/20221011032717/https://venturebeat.com/business/automated-software-testing-company-tricentis-acquires-load-testing-platform-flood-io/) by [Tricentis](https://tricentis.com/) in 2017 where I enjoyed scaling the product, business and team.  I have since continued to follow my interests in performance, finance and machine learning. # Experience I have proven operational experience in the military, government, telecommunications and financial industries. I have solid growth stage experience in education, software testing, healthcare, blockchain and database startups. I am great at designing, building and operating distributed backend systems. I have a long history of hard-won experience in performance, security and reliability and provide calm during the storm. I have a history of stitching technology together in novel ways with favorable business outcomes.  Most of all, I 💖 automating things. [[Projects]] | [[Published]]