I like to build products using the latest tech the world has to offer. I've worked on supersonic aircraft, launched rockets in the Australian outback for the Department of Defence, led development of robotaxis for Lyft and Toyota, led the flight-test engineering team at Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery program, and demoed the latest AI weapons at Anduril. I'm currently building a product called Paxmod that makes the internet a safer place for children, and I'm also the Head of AI at an Adelaide startup that rapidly prototypes solutions for enterprise.
Selected Projects
An AI business validation agent that is in use in industry.
A content moderation platform that moderates 12M per month for leading game developers.
An AI powered satellite C2 system for next-generation spacecraft operations.
A simple CAD viewer that can open any CAD file type with ease.
Experience
11Point2
Head of AI
May 2025 - Present
Adelaide, Australia
Spun up 11Point2's AI practice, prototyping cross-industry pilots in weeks and helping exec teams separate durable value from hype.
Paxmod
Founder
Aug 2024 - Present
Adelaide, Australia
Bootstrapped Paxmod, a content moderation service that processes 15M+ monthly requests with sub-second SLAs for game developers.
Career Break
Father-in-training
Oct 2023 - Aug 2024
Adelaide, Australia
Took time away from work to raise a new addition to the family.
Anduril
Principal Engineer
Apr 2023 - Oct 2023
Sydney, Australia
Secret squirrel stuff.
Woven by Toyota
Senior Staff Product Manager
Jan 2021 - Apr 2023; Jul 2024 - Jul 2025
Adelaide, Australia / Tokyo, Japan
Rebooted a 300+ person autonomy org to ship Toyota's most advanced driver-assist stack. Ended up leading many parts of the team from autonomy to developer ecosystem team. If all goes well, you'll be able to test drive it in the next few years.
Lyft Self-Driving Car Division
Staff Product Manager
Sep 2019 - Dec 2021
Palo Alto, California
Led Lyft's self-driving roadmap, shipping lots of autonomy features and improving performance 20x. Published a few patents, tested the system in San Francisco, and got to work with some of the best engineers in the world.
Amazon
Senior Technical Product Manager
Sep 2017 - Sep 2019
Seattle, Washington
Scaled Amazon's tier-1 retail systems to multi-million TPS while standing up Prime Air's drone delivery test programs.
2Beans Apps
Co-Founder
Jan 2013 - Dec 2016
Adelaide, South Australia
Founded a mobile games studio, shipping 13 titles to over 4M users Ended up selling much of the IP to a US-based publisher.
Defence Science & Technology Group
Aerospace Engineer & Research Scientist
Jan 2010 - Sep 2017
Melbourne & Adelaide, Australia
Wrote some papers in aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics. Engineered high-fidelity aerodynamic simulations and hypersonic test campaigns for the Australian Defence Force.
Qantas
Avionics Engineer Intern
Oct 2008 - Mar 2009
Sydney, New South Wales
My first "real" job out of uni. Worked on the Qantas avionics team, helping to upgrade the floor-path lighting system to save the airline over $500K annually.
Education
MBA (First Class Honours)
Melbourne Business School & Kellogg School of Management
2015 - 2017
Melbourne, Victoria
President of the Consulting Club and SRC Cohort Representative.
Graduate Certificate in Computer Science (First Class Honours)
University of Adelaide
2012 - 2013
Adelaide, South Australia
Recipient of the Department of Defence CEI scholarship.
Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering (First Class Honours)
University of New South Wales
2006 - 2010
Sydney, New South Wales
Graduated in the top 5% of the 2009 class and appeared on the Dean's Honour List multiple times.
Blog
Design vs. Art
Some of the most amazing designs come from the creative way imposed constraints are satisfied
Product Management in R&D
Why traditional PM frameworks fall apart in R&D companies and what to do instead
I still call Australia home
Thoughts on patriotism, being an expat during COVID, and what it means to love a country
Deploying a Machine-Learned Planner for Autonomous Vehicles in San Francisco
Inside Woven by Toyota's effort to productionize a learned planner on San Francisco streets.
Designing the Decision-Making Center of an Autonomous Vehicle
How the autonomy team architected the planning stack to balance safety, comfort, and real-world constraints.