AI/ML leader with 10+ years shipping production systems across Oceania, Asia and South
America—leading global data science and ML engineering teams from strategy to customer impact in agents,
search, recommendations and multimodal AI.
Global digital property business · home to realestate.com.au.
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Built and led data science and machine learning engineering teams across production agentic AI,
AI search and personalization—12 people across up to three teams.
Launched the RED brand’s first GenAI property search end to end in under one month,
validating conversational discovery in production.
Built the production agent platform behind AI search and conversational experiences, including
orchestration, evaluation, observability, guardrails and cost controls.
Owned GenAI economics and latency through prompt caching, token-level cost tracking and performance
controls, keeping production responses within 1–2 second service-level targets.
Owned AI governance controls across rate limiting, evaluation, monitoring, guardrails and security
validation, including a completed penetration test.
Online employment marketplace across Australia, New Zealand and six Asian markets.
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Built and led a global data science team of approximately 10 while hiring across multiple AI teams.
Led the recommender platform transformation across Asia and ANZ, producing
5–10x gains and a 12x peak uplift in one Asia market.
Delivered a unified recommender platform across 8+ markets and real-time recommendations
for millions of users across homepage, email and push.
Launched multilingual personalized AI search for JobsDB in Hong Kong with a
14% improvement on a core metric.
Used 150+ online experiments to de-risk search, ranking and personalization decisions,
alongside offline evaluation and load testing for approximately 500 ms recommendation targets.
Representative systems spanning AI agents, multimodal inference, information retrieval and recommendations.
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Production agent platform
Orchestration → evaluation → safe operations
Built the shared platform behind customer-facing AI search and conversational experiences, standardizing
agent orchestration, observability, evaluation, guardrails and cost governance.
AI agentsTool useObservability
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GenAI property search
Production launch in under one month
Turned natural-language property intent into a production discovery experience, moving from concept to
customer-facing validation in under one month.
Replaced isolated market solutions with a reusable platform serving millions of users across real-time
homepage, email and push recommendations in Asia and ANZ.
RecommendersRankingExperimentation
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Multimodal attribute extraction
45+ property attributes in real time
Delivered production computer vision and multimodal transformer inference that extracted semantic
property-photo attributes for downstream search and listing quality.
Multimodal AIComputer visionTransformers
Expertise
Leadership + technical depth
Hands-on technical judgement paired with team, product and operating leadership for production AI.
Agentic AI & GenAI
AI agents, multi-agent orchestration, tool calling, stateful workflows, memory, structured outputs,
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP), embeddings and fine-tuning.
AI search & recommendations
Information retrieval, hybrid and semantic search, search relevance, ranking and reranking,
learning-to-rank, sequential recommenders and large-scale personalization.
Evaluation, safety & MLOps
Agent evaluation, continuous evaluation, online experimentation, observability, tracing, guardrails,
AI governance, latency and cost control across AWS, GCP and Vertex AI.
Teams & strategy
Organization design, hiring, mentoring, executive OKRs and cross-functional product strategy—translating
AI opportunities into reliable systems, reusable platforms and measurable outcomes.
Research & recognition
Grounded in the field
Industry recognition, recommender-systems research and a computer science foundation.
Selected recognition
Winner, REA Hackdays — Hack it Forward Award for Community, Social & Environmental Good (2024)
Top performer, Databricks Gen-AI Australia Cup (2023)
Winner, SEEK International Volponi Award (2017)
Student Medal for Excellence, B.Sc. Computer Science (2009)
