Engineering manager for native platforms at Leonardo.Ai, a leading generative AI content and research platform acquired by Canva. Leonardo.Ai empowers 19M+ users to create production-quality images and videos, powered by the proprietary Phoenix foundation model.

• Lead a team of 13 engineers building the Leonardo.Ai native apps on iOS and Android, grown from 6 since joining
• Drove significant growth in MAUs and revenue through native platform improvements
• Own the company-wide AI Tools Guild, authoring the AI Tools security guidelines and 2026 AI strategy
• Raised the team's AI fluency from basic prompt usage (level 1) to agent-first parallel workflows (level 4), transforming day-to-day engineering productivity
• Conducted peer led company wide training in AI assisted engineering

• Built and led technology and engineering from the ground up for a Concentrix Catalyst funded global B2B health-tech startup
• Architected the product foundations: scalable multi-tenancy, HIPAA-compliant infrastructure, wearable health metrics integration, BI data visualisation, and native mobile/web/wearable apps
• Adopted Gen AI tooling to improve delivery velocity by 35%, enabling the team to over-deliver on key milestones
• Led sales engagements, onboarding and user testing with C-suite executives, helping secure enterprise clients
• Recruited, hired and mentored offshore tech leads and engineers, building them up to take full ownership of their teams

• Hired and managed 6 direct reports across intense projects, guiding their professional growth and supporting them through personal challenges
• Led projects from conception to delivery, from a 150+ screen enterprise iPad app for QLD Police to an Apple Watch app in partnership with a global tech organisation
• Established solution architecture and CI/CD practices that enabled predictable velocity and manageable tech debt
• Managed stakeholder expectations through bushfires and COVID, participating in steering committees and risk mitigation
• Raised external brand awareness through talks and blog posts, resulting in multiple successful engineering hires

• Prototyped Paramount+ for iOS, convincing leadership to adopt it as their next-generation streaming platform
• Led development of the PlayPlex whitelabel VOD platform powering Paramount, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, TV Land and more
• Built the whitelabel onboarding solution that reduced new brand launches from months to 2 weeks
• Managed the merger of 2 geographically dispersed iOS teams following the Viacom Inc / Viacom International merger

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• Built and launched end-to-end: native iOS app in Swift, backend in Ruby on Rails (later refactored to Elixir), acquired 800 users
• Migrated hosting from Heroku to a self-managed Flynn cluster on Digital Ocean to reduce costs