Professional Work

Current Role

Principal Android Engineer at Mantel Group (2017-Present)

Leading client engagements and representing our brand in Australia & NZ. Responsible for delivering innovative apps in complex, risk-averse environments while building and mentoring high-performing teams.

Key Achievement: ANZ Plus

Android Principal Engineer & Team Lead (2019-2024)

ANZ Plus is the fastest-growing new digital bank in Australia, with $14 billion in deposits and 35,000 new customers per month. I was the second Android developer to join the team and was there over 4 years as we scaled to become one of the largest mobile teams in the Southern Hemisphere.

Highlights

• Foundation Building: Created the foundational Android architecture, establishing core components of the codebase that other developers built upon
• Scaling: Grew the Android team from 2 to over 80 developers, evolving the engineering culture and workflows
• Project Leadership: Helped guide the Android team through all project phases, from inception to public release, and as we developed significant new features like home loans
• Ways of Working: Redesigned team operating models and workflows to overcome scaling bottlenecks
• Tech Transformation: Setup a multi-year effort to migrate the codebase to Jetpack Compose, resulting in a complete UI overhaul
• Modularisation Initiative: Initiated the modularisation effort, breaking up the monolithic codebase into smaller modules to enhance developer autonomy and alignment

Speaking & Community

Recent Conference Talks

• Zero Tech Debt - DevFest Melbourne, DevFest Auckland (2023)
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• Designing ANZ Plus - An offline real-time first Android app - GDG Melbourne (2022)
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• Continuous delivery at ANZx - GDG Melbourne, DDD Melbourne (2022)
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• Build better Android apps, with vector assets - Yow Connected, DevFest Wellington, GDG Taipei (2017)

• TensorWhat? AI and Mobile - Yow Connected, Yow West (2017)
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• Was it fragment to be? - Yow Connected (2016)
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Community Leadership

Lead Organiser, GDG Melbourne (2016-2021)

Led the Melbourne Google Developer Group for several years, helping grow both the community and our capacity to organise events. Responsibilities included running events, attracting speakers, finding sponsors, and liaising with a wide range of organisations. During this time GDG Melbourne successfully organised several DevFest conferences attracting international speakers and hundreds of attendees.

Core Skills

• Team Leadership: Building high-performing, diverse, and inclusive teams
• Mentoring: Empowering others, from junior engineers to senior leaders
• Android Development: 11+ years of experience in Kotlin and Java
• Architecture: Application architecture with Jetpack Compose and lightweight stacks
• Delivery: Continuous delivery and shift-left methodologies
• Platform Teams: Leading platform and enablement teams
• Tech Debt Management: Balancing tech and feature delivery
• Team Design: Using Team Topologies to reduce cognitive overhead and accelerate delivery

Previous Experience

Freelancer/Android Developer (2013-2017)
Delivered high-quality Android applications for a wide range of clients, from startups to large international brands.

SpatialVision/Software Development Manager (2008-2013)
Delivered solutions for government organisations, focusing on mapping and data management projects.

OrderMate/Software Development Team Lead (2003-2008)
Started as part of university Industry Based Learning and grew to lead the development team.

Education

Bachelor of Software Engineering - Swinburne University (2000-2004)

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