BWUnit
Unit testing for TIBCO BusinessWorks (enterprise integration platform).
Filled a gap nobody else did: real unit tests for TIBCO BusinessWorks projects. Mid six-figure revenue across paying customers in financial services. Still in use.
Twenty-five years in financial services tech. Three products shipped solo. Two more in flight.
Hands-on across architecture, code, delivery, operations, security, and team. Inside the regulated environments your business lives in. Restructured how I work around agents — now using them daily to ship Voder, the Claude Code plugin suite I run my own delivery with, and this site.
Twenty-five years inside financial services.
Receipts, not buzzwords.
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May 2026 – present Endava Senior Architect on Visa Click to Pay initiatives: discovery and implementation.
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2024 – Feb 2026 Westpac FATCA / CRS (cross-border tax reporting). Project Director leading a cross-functional team of 50+ across business analysis, project management, change, solution architecture, and IT delivery. Drove entity-customer compliance from 0 to 97 percent in 10 months across 5,300 bankers and 614 branches. Followed by OKYCM (ongoing know-your-customer) and AML / CTF (anti-money-laundering) reform discovery across two Consumer business teams.
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2022 – 2024 Pacific National Rail Systems team lead. 25+ developers, business analysts, and support engineers. Halved open incidents and eliminated recurring ones through root cause analysis. Product Owner for a new internal API platform on Node.js + Fastify + OpenAPI + Turborepo.
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2019 – 2022 Greater Bank Digital transformation consultant for a 50+ developer organisation. Worked closely with the bank's risk team to design SDLC controls that support high velocity: deploys to production multiple times per week, delivery cycle dropping from ~50 to ~8 days, all with "no objection" from APRA (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority). Testing team 1 person to 9. Production security vulnerabilities from hundreds to near zero. Identity and access management (IAM) architecture and staged migration design.
Same stack. Older rooms.
Where the regulated-services instincts came from.
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2014 – 2019 AMP Application and Integration Architect, then Solution Architect. Led the "My AMP" rebuild of banking and wealth-management web for AMP's 1 million+ customer base, including 46,000 home-loan customers at AMP Bank. New Zealand iteration. Bett3r. Salesforce + IRESS adviser-platform integration prototype.
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2017 – 2018 Rabobank Solution Architect for new web and mobile banking channels. Java + Spring Boot + Backbase (banking channel framework). Continuous Delivery and behaviour-driven testing embedded in the channel-build process.
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2011 CSC for BPAY One of the architects on the next-generation BPAY payments hub. Owned the non-functional requirements: scalability, availability, supportability, performance, resilience. Hit all 6-month milestones; the project was cancelled at the bank-investor level after that. Innovative managed-file-transfer security solution for record-level signing of multi-record payment files.
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2008 – 2011 NAB / MLC Senior Analyst Programmer, then Technical Lead for the Integration Services Team (15+ developers). Introduced Continuous Integration and automated deployment plans. Support Lead for 20+ BusinessWorks engines in production.
Concept to market to profit. Three times.
Solo entrepreneur. Built. Sold. Supported. Funded.
TIBant
Apache Ant tasks for TIBCO BusinessWorks.
Brought modern build automation to TIBCO BusinessWorks projects. The build-and-deploy story TIBCO never shipped. Low six-figure revenue from paying customers in production. Still in use.
addressr
Australian address validation. Free, or hosted.
Two flavours, one codebase. Free and self-hostable from GitHub (110 ★, 23 forks, 43 releases). Hosted SaaS on RapidAPI has generated five-figure lifetime revenue from 16,473 users (830 active in 30d). Used in production by Australian services.
The discipline behind all three:
Continuous Delivery
Teams. Built. Led. Trusted with the codebase.
Tech turned out to be the easy part. People, processes, orgs are the work. Fireteams of Awesomeness: small, cross-functional, military-inspired teams I built, taught, and shipped with — at 15-person, 25-person, and 50+ scales, across super, banking, and rail.
- 50 → 8Days average cycle time. Peak in mid-2020 down to ~8 by Apr 2021.
- 200+ deploysSuccessful production releases over 6 months. A team releasing once a quarter would need 50 years to do the same.
- Risk as partnerDesigned the SDLC controls with the bank's risk team. Engineered for velocity, not against it. Result: production deploys multiple times per week. APRA "no objection" was the regulator's stamp on the same SDLC.
I support what I build.
Support experience going back to 2002. The systems I design survive contact with production because I know what production actually breaks like. I've been the one debugging it.
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2002 · TIBCORendezvous Support Engineer
Started in the queue. Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux. Bus topologies, retransmit storms, the lot. Every architecture I've drawn since carries that scar tissue.
- MLC
Integration Support Lead + Tech Lead
Led production support for the Integration team alongside running its delivery. The team that ships is the team that supports.
- Pacific National
80 → 40 / month
Halved the monthly incident rate on the Rail Systems backlog. Same team. Better signal, because I knew where to look. Build-it-and-throw-it-over-the-wall is how systems rot.
The thinking I've kept returning to:
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The Phoenix Project
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The Unicorn Project
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The DevOps Handbook
The broader record.
Team outcomes across the employers. The talks. The literature.
Greater Bank
24 → 8
Delivery cycle, days.
Greater Bank
1 → 9
Permanent testing team, headcount.
Greater Bank
100s → ~0
Unpatched production security vulnerabilities.
Pacific National
50% ↓
Open incidents in the Rail Systems backlog.
MLC
15+
Developers led, Integration Services.
Westpac FATCA
50+
Cross-functional team across business analysis, project management, change, architecture, delivery.
Talks · 510+ leaders across three rooms
apidays Melbourne · 2023 · ~300 SlashNEW Newcastle · 2025 · ~150 Newcastle Coder's Group · 2023 · ~60
Aligned with the field. Sometimes ahead of it.
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Team of Teams
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Team Topologies
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The High-Velocity Edge
AI is the foundation now. I've been building on it for years.
This is what restructuring engineering around agents looks like in practice. Voder shipping into production. agent-plugins running my own delivery loop. The Shift translating the practice for other engineering leaders. Specific systems, specific outputs, specific risk posture — not "we should use AI more."
The Shift
Weekly LinkedIn newsletter for engineering leaders. 210 subscribers. Procurement, security, governance, vendor risk, regulatory trajectory. Issue 07 reached 1,079 impressions, top of the series.
Well Financial
Co-founded consumer fintech. "Helping you own your financial well-being." 21 percent spending reduction proven in prototype. Pre-launch.
windyroad/agent-plugins
Open-source Claude Code plugin suite. Architecture governance, ISO 31000 risk, test-driven development, delivery quality. The toolkit I use to ship Voder, Well Financial, and this site.
CSIRO autonomous agents
1999 to 2001. Autonomous software agents in C++ on Linux / Solaris. Real-time decisions, noisy data, multi-agent. CybeRoos placed 2nd Pacific Rim, 9th World. Three co-authored papers.
