BWUnit
Unit testing for TIBCO BusinessWorks (enterprise integration platform).
Filled a gap nobody else did: real unit tests for TIBCO BusinessWorks projects. Mid six-figure revenue across paying customers in financial services. Still in use.
Application for Founding CTO.
Founding CTO for the Sydney fintech building modern banking from the ground up.
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June 2026 · Sydney
Hands-on across architecture, code, delivery, operations, security, and team. Inside the regulated environments your business will live in. Building Voder now: the AI that gives small and medium businesses plain-English access to their finances.
Receipts, not buzzwords.
Senior Architect on Visa Click to Pay initiatives: discovery and implementation.
FATCA / CRS (cross-border tax reporting). Project Director leading a cross-functional team of 50+ across business analysis, project management, change, solution architecture, and IT delivery. Drove entity-customer compliance from 0 to 97 percent in 10 months across 5,300 bankers and 614 branches. Followed by OKYCM (ongoing know-your-customer) and AML / CTF (anti-money-laundering) reform discovery across two Consumer business teams.
Rail Systems team lead. 25+ developers, business analysts, and support engineers. Halved open incidents and eliminated recurring ones through root cause analysis. Product Owner for a new internal API platform on Node.js + Fastify + OpenAPI + Turborepo.
Digital transformation consultant for a 50+ developer organisation. Worked closely with the bank's risk team to design SDLC controls that support high velocity: deploys to production multiple times per week, delivery cycle dropping from ~50 to ~8 days, all with "no objection" from APRA (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority). Testing team 1 person to 9. Production security vulnerabilities from hundreds to near zero. Identity and access management (IAM) architecture and staged migration design.
Where the regulated-bank instincts came from.
Application and Integration Architect, then Solution Architect. Led the "My AMP" rebuild of banking and wealth-management web for AMP's 1 million+ customer base, including 46,000 home-loan customers at AMP Bank. New Zealand iteration. Bett3r. Salesforce + IRESS adviser-platform integration prototype.
Solution Architect for new web and mobile banking channels. Java + Spring Boot + Backbase (banking channel framework). Continuous Delivery and behaviour-driven testing embedded in the channel-build process.
One of the architects on the next-generation BPAY payments hub. Owned the non-functional requirements: scalability, availability, supportability, performance, resilience. Hit all 6-month milestones; the project was cancelled at the bank-investor level after that. Innovative managed-file-transfer security solution for record-level signing of multi-record payment files.
Senior Analyst Programmer, then Technical Lead for the Integration Services Team (15+ developers). Introduced Continuous Integration and automated deployment plans. Support Lead for 20+ BusinessWorks engines in production.
Just launched
Most AI tools answer questions. They don't touch your real data.
I moved past chat-style AI to AI that does work for you: agents that read your systems and act on them. Most small and medium businesses haven't. Trusting an agent with your processes starts with trusting it with your data, and uploading PDFs into ChatGPT isn't trust. It's friction.
Voder is the way in. Read-only Xero access surfaced through Claude or ChatGPT via the Model Context Protocol. The owner asks "what's owed to me, and when?" and gets the answer in plain English, inside a tool they already pay for. Trust the data first; the do-it-for-you features come later.
Every other AI play is chasing the enterprise. SMBs don't have a CFO and don't have a budget for one. They have me.
Live on the OpenAI Connections marketplace as of June 2026. Day 7 of 60. Two active, one organic.
Solo entrepreneur. Built. Sold. Supported. Funded.
Unit testing for TIBCO BusinessWorks (enterprise integration platform).
Filled a gap nobody else did: real unit tests for TIBCO BusinessWorks projects. Mid six-figure revenue across paying customers in financial services. Still in use.
Apache Ant tasks for TIBCO BusinessWorks.
Brought modern build automation to TIBCO BusinessWorks projects. The build-and-deploy story TIBCO never shipped. Low six-figure revenue from paying customers in production. Still in use.
Australian address validation. Free, or hosted.
Two flavours, one codebase. Free and self-hostable from GitHub (110 ★, 23 forks, 43 releases). Hosted SaaS on RapidAPI has generated five-figure lifetime revenue from 16,473 users (830 active in 30d). Used in production by Australian services.
The discipline behind all three:
Continuous Delivery
Humble + Farley, 2010 · the playbook BWUnit and TIBant inherited.
Tech turned out to be the easy part. People, processes, orgs are the work. Fireteams of Awesomeness: small, cross-functional, military-inspired teams I built, taught, and shipped with.
Peak ~50d ↓ After FireteamsSupport experience going back to 2002. The systems I design survive contact with production because I know what production actually breaks like. I've been the one debugging it.
2002 · TIBCO
Rendezvous Support Engineer
Started in the queue. Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux. Bus topologies, retransmit storms, the lot. Every architecture I've drawn since carries that scar tissue.
MLC
Integration Support Lead + Tech Lead
Led production support for the Integration team alongside running its delivery. The team that ships is the team that supports.
Pacific National
80 → 40 / month
Halved the monthly incident rate on the Rail Systems backlog. Same team. Better signal, because I knew where to look. Build-it-and-throw-it-over-the-wall is how systems rot.
The thinking I've kept returning to:
The Phoenix Project
Kim, Behr, Spafford, 2013 · IT operations as a parable
The Unicorn Project
Kim, 2019 · developer experience and the Five Ideals
The DevOps Handbook
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis · the practitioner's manual
Team outcomes across the employers. The talks. The literature.
Greater Bank
24 → 8
Delivery cycle, days.
Greater Bank
1 → 9
Permanent testing team, headcount.
Greater Bank
100s → ~0
Unpatched production security vulnerabilities.
Pacific National
50% ↓
Open incidents in the Rail Systems backlog.
MLC
15+
Developers led, Integration Services.
Westpac FATCA
50+
Cross-functional team across business analysis, project management, change, architecture, delivery.
Talks · 510+ leaders across three rooms
Aligned with the field. Sometimes ahead of it.
Team of Teams
McChrystal, 2015 · early influence
Team Topologies
Skelton + Pais, Sep 2019 · published a month after Fireteams shipped
The High-Velocity Edge
Spear, 2009 · operational excellence in high-tempo orgs
Not "we should use AI more". Specific systems, specific outputs, specific risk posture. Voder is the current commercial play; everything below is the surrounding ecosystem.
Weekly LinkedIn newsletter for engineering leaders. 210 subscribers. Procurement, security, governance, vendor risk, regulatory trajectory. Issue 07 reached 1,079 impressions, top of the series.
Co-founded consumer fintech. "Helping you own your financial well-being." 21 percent spending reduction proven in prototype. Pre-launch.
Open-source Claude Code plugin suite. Architecture governance, ISO 31000 risk, test-driven development, delivery quality. The toolkit I use to ship Voder, Well Financial, and this site.
1999 to 2001. Autonomous software agents in C++ on Linux / Solaris. Real-time decisions, noisy data, multi-agent. CybeRoos placed 2nd Pacific Rim, 9th World. Three co-authored papers.
The CV under the CV.
2006
Patent
Functional planning system. Learns user usage patterns and plans the best event sequences for a given context. Co-invented with Mikhail Prokopenko et al. at CSIRO; assigned to Canon Inc. US7054849B2.
1999 → 2001
Publications
1999 → 2005
RoboCup
CybeRoos with the CSIRO Mathematical & Information Systems team. 2nd Pacific Rim and 9th World Cup (2000, 2001). Volunteer Project Leader for the RoboCup Soccer Simulator. C++ on Linux / OS X.
Beyond the lab
Concurrent
BSc Computer Science, Macquarie University. AI Programmer at Team Bondi, NavMesh path-finding in C++. TIBCO Rendezvous Support Engineer across Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux.
Why this role
Twenty-five years inside regulated banking. Three products I built, sold, and supported solo. A team-building framework I've taught from the stage and shipped with.
This role wants all of it at once: a founding technologist who writes the architectural spine, runs the team that ships against it, and treats the regulator as a partner. Not a tax.
The first 100 days deserves a room, not a slide. Let's talk.
Direct lines, after Firesoft's introduction.
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