About
Software engineer by training, ML researcher by PhD, shipping production LLM systems since 2023.
AI engineer with 10+ years in software engineering and a PhD in applied machine learning, building and operating production LLM, RAG and agentic systems since 2023. Doctoral research covered the full model-development cycle on clinical data — training, evaluation and explainability — and that rigour still shapes how every system gets measured.
Currently leading AI engineering at Littles Lawyers, owning the retrieval and context layer behind every LLM feature — hybrid search, semantic reranking, evaluation and cost optimisation — and building agentic workflows for legal document analysis. Previously shipped QChat, a secure GenAI assistant serving Queensland Government teams.
Most at home taking ambiguous problems from first definition through to production and operation, guiding developers along the way and steering technical direction with executive stakeholders.
Experience
From software engineering foundations to AI solution leadership.
May 2025 — Present
Littles Lawyers
Legal AI Agentic Search Assistant
Legal Document Processing & Summarisation Pipeline
AI Search Cost Optimisation
AI Evaluation & Content Safety
Data Integration & Automation
LLM Document Classification
LLM Knowledge Graph Analytics
Executive Partnership
Technical Leadership
Jan 2025 — May 2025
University of Queensland — QLD Health (Co-joint position)
Project "Smart Hub"
Nov 2023 — Dec 2024
Queensland Government — Customer and Digital Group
Project "QChat"
Project "Insight Engine"
Nov 2023 — Mar 2024
University of Queensland — Centre for Health Services Research
Project "Infection Prediction"
Jul 2020 — Feb 2022
University of Queensland — QLD Health (Co-joint position)
Project "QUIET" (Queensland Integrated Element Tracker)
Feb 2016 — Jun 2020
Magentus (formerly Genie Solutions)
Project "Genie Application"
Project "Legacy Data Migration to AWS"
Aug 2014 — Dec 2015
Queensland University of Technology
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
The University of Queensland
Nov 2019 — Aug 2024
Applied AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare. Thesis: “Artificial intelligence to improve clinical outcomes in hospitals”
Master’s Degree
Queensland University of Technology
Jul 2012 — Dec 2013
Software Architecture
Skills
The stack behind production LLM, retrieval and machine-learning systems.
Publications
Peer-reviewed contributions in AI/ML and health informatics.
Journal of Medical Internet Research · 2024;26:e49655
DOI: 10.2196/49655BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making · 23, 207 (2023)
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-023-02306-03medRxiv · 2023
medRxiv PreprintInternational Journal of Medical Informatics · 2022;162:104758
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2022.104758Applied Clinical Informatics · 2022;13(2):339–354
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1743243Interested in collaborating, have a question, or want to discuss AI opportunities? I'd love to hear from you.