About
Based in Sydney, Australia.
I immigrated and grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand.
From an early age I was drawn to computers, taking things apart, figuring out how they worked, and putting them back together (usually with fewer screws than before).
My cousin-in-law was a PhD student at the University of Canterbury and would always bring home old desktops and server equipment that had been decommissioned. He helped me build my first computer before I was 10, and from there my passion for technology began.
In my teenage years, I played a lot of video games. I mean a lot of video games. Over 20,000 hours. I also got really good at them and even got the opportunity to travel all over Australasia to compete for money.
As I approached my young-adult years, I moved to Auckland, New Zealand to pursue my education and to experience living in a larger city. And whilst I continued my semi-professional gaming career (representing Auckland at Australasian Collegiate tournaments), I knew I had to focus on my actual career instead of a passion.
My first professional occupation was in Digital Marketing, specialising in Photoshop and SEO for a technology retail store. I got to work with technology every day, ranging from consumer hardware to enterprise server racks, taking the skills I learnt from my younger years into this role, and my passion for technology was reignited. This eventually led me into transitioning into the IT industry.
I transitioned from Digital Marketing and climbed through the standard IT pathway of: Helpdesk → Senior Technical Support → Systems Engineer. My day-to-day involves working with cloud services and managing devices to help others do their jobs both efficiently and effectively. During this journey I have worked with large enterprise corporations, in both public and private sectors.
In gaming, one move or decision could result in winning or losing, and the skills I learnt from competing at a high level helped me find success early in my professional journey. Some of these skills include:
- Strategic Thinking & Resource Management
- Team-Building & Communication
- Adaptability & High-Pressure Decision Making
- Resilience & Initiative
As part of my career I often communicate and translate technical concepts to key business stakeholders, external vendors, and even C-Suite executives whilst balancing expertise administering Microsoft platforms. I attribute learning these foundational skills to my teenage gaming years.
I'm incredibly fortunate to have had opportunities to speak at conferences, meet industry leaders and innovators, and attend networking events to connect with like-minded people throughout my early career years. Today I feel even more driven to do things outside the median comfort zone.
As you can tell, I'm an extremely curious person and always take the initiative to test and learn new tools and cutting-edge technologies. I was an early adopter of GPT-2 (OpenAI/ChatGPT) in early 2020 when the pandemic hit, and I still remember people denouncing Artificial Intelligence technology. Even back in my gaming days, I had always utilised NVIDIA graphics cards and have watched the technology grow into what it is today.
These days I have fully incorporated AI into my life and have used it to create things I would never have dreamed of doing myself. this website for example.
As I watch the growth of AI and these technologies integrate into many aspects of everyday life, I can't help but feel like it's going a little too fast.
I remember when AI video generation was something people would laugh at, and even the idea of AI replacing people's jobs, career, and purpose was something out of science fiction.
And fast forward not even two years later, with models like Veo 3 (Google), Sora 2 (OpenAI), and most recently Seeddance 2.0 (ByteDance), the line between fabrication and reality has been removed.
Google | Veo 3 | 2025
ByteDance | Seeddance 2.0 | 2026
Everyone is aware of AI now, but what isn't known is the capability and growth of this technology. My goal is to educate and spread awareness, not by fear-mongering or spreading misinformation, but rather the opposite.
During a demonstration of AI technology I had given at a networking event, I recall people still dismissing AI capabilities as they had used ChatGPT briefly a few months ago and received hallucinations and generalisations. The same people were speechless, and some even started laughing, when I demonstrated Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 that was able to plan, build, and present an entire slide deck and even went as far as to code its own static HTML website to visualise its creation. All autonomously.
Who knows what the future holds, but I know I'll be continuously learning and taking these skills to hopefully one day influence decisions, with ethical and moral thought.