Twenty years across research, enterprise consulting, and hyperscale cloud. I take platforms from strategy through architecture to teams that ship, not pilots that stall. What I bring to an employer:
Production Gen AI & agentic systems (governance, security, cost, scale on AWS and multi-cloud)
Modern data & AI platform architecture (lakehouse, analytics, ML ops, FinOps-aware design)
Executive and board-level communication; strong pre-sales and solutions background
Building and mentoring engineering and architecture teams; hiring bar, delivery standards, roadmaps
Now: CTO at Rezilens, engineering, platform, GRC/cybersecurity, and agentic-AI products
University of Dubai: Industry Executive, aligning AI, cybersecurity, and IS programs with enterprise practice
Macquarie University: Adjunct Fellow, research and teaching in data, AI, and industry practice
MentorCruise: AI and cloud career mentor (since 2023)
AWS (5+ years): ANZ AI Sales Lead (Accelerated Compute/Gen AI); Efficiency Lead SA and Well-Architected author; Senior Manager (Analytics & AI, sustainability); Senior SA (APAC data & AI)
Deloitte (3 years): Specialist Lead and Manager, cloud, analytics, and AI transformation programs
CSIRO (3 years): Postdoctoral Fellow, deep learning on IoT and large-scale sensor analytics
PhD (electrical engineering); author of three books on Amazon (agentic AI, cloud AI infrastructure, GRC in the agentic era); contributor to AWS Well-Architected and field guidance on sustainability and Gen AI.
