I got born in 1989 in Perth, Western AustraliaIve got the sunbleached hair and lifelong bare feet of a true West Australian. Mum taught math, and dad repaired radar for the RAAF, which meant we dined on algorithms or complaints about how the neighbor's microwave interfered with the Wi-FI signal. I'd already broken the grade-book code at school by the time I turned twelve for the sole purpose of raising a C grade in gym to a B for one of my pals; I remain proud of this work.
BSc in Software Engineering at the University of Western Australia, and then promptly moved back home to Sydney due to the brighter lights of Siliconese. The 2010s involved developing mobile banking apps and learning that move fast and break things is an AMAZING piece of advice when your team isnt the one that is on call at 4 a.m. when the whole of Sydney cant pay each others rent.
In 2017, I got headhunted for a gig in the iGaming spaceclearly, a conference speaker was needed who had a deep knowledge of both the regulation of gaming and micro-services architecture. I laughed and said yes and have honestly looked back. I spent a few years as the Lead Backend Engineer for a white label casino, delivering features for thousands of brands while ensuring that my RNG remained reliably random and my payouts remained reliably fast.
Then came Online AU Casino in 2021, and finally, a review platform by Aussies, for Aussies, and only for Aussies, and reviews and offers that are free from the above issues and more than fair dinkum! At Online AU Casino, I joined the team as the CTO, and essentially rebooted the tech from scratch. Currently, I reside in the realm of Next.js and Go, where my scraping spiders diligently evaluate more than 200 offers every ten minutes, geoblocks are intact to avoid Victorians signing up for a casino they are not exactly qualified to join, and Core Web Vitals are the absolute, top most priority since nobody has the time to wait more than 1.2 seconds to know if the free spins deal for today is worth the effort.
When not coding, I surf as often as there's a decent swell (snapper rocks is my nirvana), make a pretty deadly cup of coffee, and raise rescue greyhoundstotally two, exceedingly fast, and fabulously spoiled dogs named Null and Pointer. Still manage to fly back to Perth each Christmas, where my old man continues to demonstrate his latest Raspberry Pi creation and my mum is baffled that, yes, indeed, I actually do get paid to play with Internet pokies.
