Chief Engineer.AI Pragmatist.Writing The LeadTech Diet.
Chief Engineer — GenAI at Commonwealth Bank. Writing about AI adoption, engineering leadership, and the gap between the hype cycle and production.
What I Write About
Insights for Engineering Leaders
AI Adoption & Strategy
Why most enterprise AI initiatives stall — and what the ones that don't have in common. ROI over experimentation, leadership mandates over bottom-up hope.
AI Architecture & Security
Production patterns for agents, RAG systems, and voice AI — plus an honest look at why your guardrails probably don't work yet.
Engineering Leadership
Building teams that ship. One-on-ones, delivery systems, operational maturity, and the organisational dysfunction that silently kills velocity.
Career Navigation
The IC-to-management pendulum, earning vs learning, and how to position yourself when AI is reshaping what "senior" means.
Featured Articles
From The LeadTech Diet
The Death of Software Design
What happens to architecture when AI generates most of the code.
Voice AI: The Next Platform Shift
I built a voice PA from a ski lift in Whistler. The real decision isn’t which model — it’s where your agent sits in the topology.
Vibe Coding Your Way to a Seed Round
MVP costs collapsed to near-zero. What that means for non-technical founders, and where it breaks down.
The Engineering Manager Series
A four-part framework covering people, technical excellence, operations, and delivery.
Best Reads of 2025
Five books on AI ethics, NVIDIA’s culture, the apprenticeship crisis, and why the product operating model matters.