01About
I like the boring parts
I've built for Apple platforms for over 15 years — whole apps on small teams at first, then developer infrastructure at Facebook, Instagram and Messenger, code billions of people load every day without knowing it. A minute saved on a build is nothing on its own; multiplied across thousands of engineers, every day, it's a lot of time handed back. That's the part I enjoy.
Most of it is stuff users never see: asset pipelines, build systems, code-mods across hundreds of libraries, feature-flag tooling, diffing engines. Not glamorous, but done right it quietly makes everyone faster.
These days I consult on iOS and build my own apps on the side: a Mac diffing tool and a ski tracker. I've been in the Swift community for years, and I'm not going anywhere.
- Education
- B.Sc. Computer Science & Software EngineeringEdith Cowan University
02Work
Where I've worked
More than 15 years on Apple platforms — small teams where I owned the whole app, then infrastructure behind some of the world's largest.
Fabric GroupNow
2026 — NowLead iOS Consultant — Australia Post · Melbourne, AU
Leading iOS delivery for the Australia Post team — modernising the codebase, shipping new features fast, and keeping Fabric Group and Australia Post pointed in the same direction.
ANZ
2023 — 2026iOS Software Engineer — Enablement · Melbourne, AU
Infrastructure and platform support for product engineers: Swift Package Manager tooling and plugins, a Feature Flag Injector/Inspector that sped up PR reviews, GitHub CI workflows, App Store Connect automation with Terraform, and static analysis to track code health.
Twitter
2022iOS Software Engineer — DMs & Notifications · Remote · Perth, AU
Made the codebase nicer to work in for the whole org: faster builds, cleaner module boundaries, and a migration to single-language framework modules. Also scoped out Kotlin Multiplatform, Bazel and XcodeGen for a new messaging app.
Facebook
2017 — 2022iOS Software Engineer — UI Infrastructure · Menlo Park & NYC, US
Owned asset infrastructure for Facebook, Instagram and Messenger: code-generated type-safe asset APIs, code-mods across 250+ libraries, and stripping ~30% of unused assets to cut the app's asset footprint by ~40%. Added Swift support to the Buck build system, with a rotation on Novi teaching teams to adopt Swift.
Punters
2014 — 2017Lead iOS Software Engineer · Melbourne, AU
Designed a custom architecture (NEMO) shared across both apps and led a full rewrite of the Odds app in five weeks. Played a considerable role in Punters' 2017 acquisition by NewsCorp.
Earlier
2013 — 2014iOS Engineer & Contractor · Perth · Melbourne, AU
Contract and internship roles cutting my teeth on iOS — Gyde, Stems Mobile, and a Discovr internship where I shipped an app redesign to over 1.3 million users.
03Projects
Things I've made
Side projects and shipped apps where I owned all of it, front to back.
- 01
Yewki
In development
A snowboarding and ski tracker with a social feed — logging runs on mountains around the world. Full backend and front end, built end to end.
- 02
SameSame
Retired
A modern text-diffing app for the Mac — native AppKit, a rewritten diffing engine, dark mode, a history sidebar and several UI styles. Built to be the diff tool I wanted; since retired.
- 03
Please Help
WAiTTA finalist
A personal-safety app for people with disabilities, co-created with Adrian Jurcevic as a university project. Featured on Channel 7's Today Tonight and a WAiTTA Awards finalist.
04Speaking & Appearances
Talks & appearances
Conference talks, some hosting, and a handful of podcasts and press from the Swift and Apple-dev community.
Talks & events
- 2018@SwiftSpeakerBeijing
- 2018SwiftFestMaster of ceremoniesBoston
- 2018Craft ConferenceSpeakerBudapest
- 2017Swift SummitMaster of ceremoniesSan Francisco
- 2017AltConfRealm InterviewsInterviewSan Jose
- 2017PlaygroundsFounder & organiserMelbourne
- 2016try! SwiftA Swift Eye for the Stringly-Typed APISpeakerNew York
- 2015Melbourne CocoaHeadsPresenterMelbourne
Media & press
- 2021Australia's international borders are reopeningABC NewsFeature
- 2017Creator of Playgrounds ConferenceSwift CodersPodcast
- 2017Realm InterviewsAltConfVideo
- 2016A Swift Eye for the Stringly-Typed APItry! Swift NYCTalk · video
- 2016All In The Swift BoatRetro SpeculativePodcast
- 2016Innovation at PuntersPuntersFeature
05Contact
Get in
touch
Got something you’re working on, an idea, or just want to say hi? Drop me a line — I read everything and I’ll get back to you.
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