Bridging corporate DevOps expertise with educational AI research, serving as
technical architect and developer on miXai-learn, a ¥20.9M KAKENHI-funded
international project developing socially assistive robotics for embodied
learning. Brought production engineering practices to an academic environment,
designing the infrastructure and software that connects the physical and
virtual classroom.
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Design and construct on-premises server infrastructure for the LA-ReflecT
research platform, including Docker Swarm orchestration, Cloudflare
integration, and nginx, serving distributed research teams across three
Japanese universities
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Migrate legacy codebase from GitLab to GitHub and introduce DevOps
fundamentals with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
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Lead the design and delivery of the robot integration system for
miXai-learn, enabling socially assistive robots to respond intelligently
to student learning events through LLM-driven gesture selection, a
configurable event trigger architecture, and real-time hardware telemetry
streaming
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Architect the reflection evidence layer across the full stack, pairing
session photography, conversation transcripts, and gesture timelines with
the LA-ReflecT analytics platform; piloted in live research sessions
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Mentor academic researchers in DevOps culture and enterprise practices,
establishing contribution protocols and version control standards
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Collaborate remotely with Kyoto and Kyushu universities, and partners in Europe
Holding the reins of DevOps & Infrastructure in production,
while providing a nourishing and dependable atmosphere for
all technical and non-technical teams.
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Design and construct the future infrastructure of Aotal,
in collaboration with internal stakeholders
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Manage the complete lifecycle of Aotal's Helm - Kubernetes
- Terraform - AWS backend single-handedly, resolving technical debt accumulated over years
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Architect and execute comprehensive infrastructure migration
from legacy EKS to AWS Fargate across 50+ services, reducing
infrastructure costs by ~33%, eliminating recurring quarterly
upgrade disruption, and enabling developer self-service through
a full Terraform rewrite
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Work fully remotely with the development and operations
teams in New Zealand
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Provide 24/7 on-call support for Aotal's critical systems
serving clients across New Zealand, Australia and the USA
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Mentor the Auckland based operations team with DevOps best
practices and guide them through legacy migrations
Leading operational DevOps and rapport with four contrasting
teams in Stuff's Auckland office solo.
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Ensure the highly available stuff.co.nz website serving
over two million customers every day remains available and
pristine
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Work remotely with the wider DevOps team, while working
closely with developers in the Auckland office
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Rebuild the DevOps team's reputation across four product
teams with distinct tech stacks, establishing it as a
reliable and trusted engineering partner
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Mentor and support juniors in technical best practices,
and operational protocols
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Build and maintain Stuff's critical legacy infrastructure
in AWS using Docker, Puppet and Concourse
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Build and maintain Stuff's new infrastructure in GCP using
Kubernetes, Jenkins and Terraform
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Configure and maintain a highly sophisticated CDN network
using Akamai and Varnish caching
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Provide on-call support utilizing a NewRelic and ELK based
monitoring stack over PagerDuty
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Design and deliver a custom infrastructure pipeline for
the New Product Development team, built around their
divergence from the existing codebase
Spreading DevOps as a culture in the company and be the key
drivers of automation and security in the rapidly growing
enterprise.
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Break down locally-hosted monolithic programs into
cloud-hosted micro-services with deployment automation
using Terraform and best security practices
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Build a chief SaaS application to provision multiple CI
pipelines for a product using Jenkins Job DSL, AWS Boto3
and Terraform
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Guide and assist product teams into their journey of
adopting DevOps as a culture
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Mentor and lead interns over 3 months, in producing a
proof-of-concept SaaS application
Building an enterprise-level Billing and CRM solution as
part of an Agile cross-functional team for the Australian
and Singapore electricity market.
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Deliver an enterprise market-ready solution in the
Australian and Singapore electricity market in due time
as part of a cross-functional team
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Work with an In-house legacy programming language inspired
by IBM's UNIBASIC and UNI-data
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Develop an enterprise-level Java Spring Hibernate project
that follows BDD for Billing and CRM
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Implement an SFTP interface in conjunction with existing
Windows Component Services written in C#
Building an automated deployment and testing pipeline from
scratch for a legacy enterprise-level Billing and CRM
solution, and a Selenium testing framework.
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Build a CI pipeline using Python, AWS and Jenkins which
serves as the primary benchmarking tool for all builds
released into production
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Create a test harness extension to the CI pipeline for
customizing automated performance tests written for JMeter