Resume

Overview

Technical founder and builder who ships production LLM products on Claude and open-weight models, and builds in front of technical rooms. Founded three companies (Central BBS, acquired by an ISP; CloudVector, founding stake, acquired by Imperva; Inzpec, with Trade Me). In the last two years: a free national LLM service, an MCP-native retrieval system that ships as a Claude Code plugin, an eleven-agent production system on the Claude Developer Platform, and an eight-product AI portfolio taken to market. Fifteen years on conference stages, podcasts, and live-demo sessions for developer audiences. I care about AI that respects the people whose data it touches, which is why the products I ship run on sovereign infrastructure and detect personal information before it leaks. Available to travel regularly and to work event hours, evenings and weekends included.

Selected proof

Developer rooms, today: Cursor Ambassador for Auckland; programmed and hosted Auckland's first Cursor meetup: talks, live demos, a Cursor engineer on stage, a packed room, and Cursor credits redeemed by QR in the room.
On stage: Ransomware Gone in 1 Minute, a live technical demo of VMware Cloud recovery · Interview, on theCube at SiliconANGLE during VMworld.
Production on Claude: built an eleven-agent marketing engine on the Claude Developer Platform (Python, cron, markdown prompts, shared JSON state, scoped tools, full action audit) that publishes articles, runs ad-spend guardrails, and reports every Monday without a marketing team. Write-up.
MCP-native knowledge system: sole author of AKMS, hybrid retrieval (pgvector, Reciprocal Rank Fusion, cross-encoder rerank) behind a five-tool MCP server, shipped as a Claude Code plugin, so Cursor, Claude Code, and Copilot search company knowledge and get cited evidence. Write-up.
Free national LLM service: shipped and operate GOVGPT, a free, New Zealand-hosted AI assistant for government information on open-weight models. I carry its uptime.
Mentoring: Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator since 2015, eleven years of technical mentoring for accelerator cohorts.
Developer tools people use: cryptopump (Go, 76 stars), ollama-gpu-calculator (73 stars, live app) helps builders pick models for local inference, vdicalc, the open-source VDI sizing calculator used across the field, signalscope (LightGBM backtesting pipeline) · molt-social (a social platform where humans and AI agents coexist, Next.js 15).
Reference architectures and working code samples: the Claude marketing-engine and AKMS/MCP write-ups above; Datrium and Nutanix reference architectures and benchmarks earlier; two VMware books.

Building with

Tools I commonly use when developing: Claude Developer Platform (Anthropic API), MCP servers and Claude Code plugins, Cursor; Python (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy), TypeScript (Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit), PHP (Laravel), Go; Ollama, vLLM, AI gateways, SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL), document databases (MongoDB), vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone), hybrid retrieval and eval harnesses; Kubernetes, Argo CD GitOps, GPU schedulers (NVIDIA GPU Operator, HAMi), Keycloak, FreeIPA, Coder, Grafana, and Prometheus.

Experience

Cursor Ambassador, Auckland · Cursor New Zealand (volunteer) · Jul 2026 – Present

Programme and host builder meetups for the local startup community; first Auckland meetup at GridAKL, August 2026. cursornewzealand.co.nz

Chief AI Officer · ASI Solutions Ltd · Auckland, New Zealand · Jul 2024 – Present

Hands-on builder: I write the agents, the retrieval system, and the inference stack myself, and run the technical conversations with founders, government, and regulated enterprise.

Took ASI's AI product line to market: eight products including GPU-as-a-Service, a sovereign OpenAI-compatible inference API, Sovereign AI Chat, and Document Analyser, with NVIDIA as partner. Lead technical pre-sales on the largest opportunities (architecture, proof-of-concept design, RFP response) and coach solutions engineers through multi-million-dollar cycles.
Launched GOVGPT, GPU-as-a-Service, ML Workspaces, and Data Insights, a document-intelligence product with PII detection for Privacy Act compliance.
Built the production systems on Claude above: the eleven-agent marketing engine and AKMS with its MCP server and Claude Code plugin.
Also built and run the sovereign GPU platform underneath: Kubernetes, vLLM, GPU Operator, Argo CD GitOps, and federated identity, for a leading New Zealand research university.

Co-Founder · Inzpec Ltd · Auckland, New Zealand · Apr 2022 – Jun 2024

Operating co-founder with Jamie Kruger (founder of homes.co.nz, acquired by Trade Me). Built a property due-diligence platform in partnership with Trade Me: pre-purchase reports, a report database, and AI property analysis for mortgage lenders and insurers.

Global Head of Product Marketing, Security and Identity · Citrix Systems, Inc. · Auckland, New Zealand (remote) · Oct 2020 – Apr 2022

Created and hosted The Click-Down, a technical podcast on zero-trust and ZTNA architecture, and delivered architecture blueprints at the Citrix Briefing Center to technical audiences.

Co-Founder · CloudVector, Inc. · Los Altos, CA · Nov 2018 – Jun 2021

Founding stage, non-operating: founding-team member with equity in an ML-based API threat-protection startup; stepped back from day-to-day involvement early. Acquired by Imperva in 2021.

CTO APJ · Datrium, Inc. · Sunnyvale, CA · May 2017 – Aug 2020

Led the solutions architecture team: reference architectures, benchmarks, and technical papers that let enterprise customers run Oracle and other I/O-intensive workloads on the DVX platform. Worked directly with engineering on features and bugs; presented to customers and at conferences, through the acquisition by VMware.

Head of Alliances Engineering and Verticals · Nutanix, Inc. · San Jose, CA · Jan 2014 – Apr 2017

Made the platform engineering-ready for partner applications in regulated verticals (Epic and Cerner electronic medical records) and led the team that validated and benchmarked them. Fed partner requirements back to product management and engineering through the NASDAQ IPO. Two patents filed on EMR performance and PHI handling.

Senior Staff Architect, End-User Computing CTO Office · VMware, Inc. · Palo Alto, CA · Feb 2010 – Jan 2014

Advanced development, concept to prototype to product: Project Orcha (tech preview) and Horizon View scaled to 10,000 desktops per pod; three issued patents on remoting and UI virtualization.
Co-authored two Horizon/View books, built the field's VDI sizing calculator, VMworld speaker in 2011 and 2013, and founded and hosted the APAC Virtualization Roundtable podcast.

Head of Datacenter Operations, APAC · TeleTech Holdings, Inc. · Sydney, Australia · Mar 2004 – Oct 2009

IT operations and critical infrastructure for 30,000+ employees across APAC.

Head of IT Operations · Blockbuster Brazil · São Paulo, Brazil · Oct 1998 – Feb 2004

Core IT infrastructure for 130 stores; store launches, automation, integration.

Founder and CEO · Central Bulletin Board System · São Paulo, Brazil · 1991 – 1995

Built and operated a pioneering online BBS: infrastructure, platform code, operations. Acquired by Nutecnet, a Brazilian ISP.

Talks and developer rooms

VMworld speaker (2011, 2013) · The Cube at VMworld 2011 · Engineers Unplugged at VMworld Barcelona · APAC Virtualization Roundtable, founder and host from 2010 · The Click-Down podcast at Citrix · vBrownBag live demo (2013) · Auckland Cursor Meetup host (2026).

Builder artifacts

Personal open source on weekends: signalscope (LightGBM backtesting pipeline), molt-social (a social platform where humans and AI agents coexist, Next.js 15), cryptopump (Go trading engine).
Production write-ups at myvirtualcloud.net: the Claude marketing agents · AKMS and MCP · LightGBM in production. 800+ technical articles, 2009 to 2021, Top 25 virtualization blog.
Books: VMware View 5 · VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions · VMware View Security Hardening Guide.
Patents issued: US 10,826,795 (service-level management for virtualization); US 9,529,819 (opening unsupported file types through remoting); US 9,250,854 (UI virtualization for remote devices); two filed (EMR performance, PHI in distributed systems).
Ecosystem: co-founder of Devonport Venture Partners, a passive angel-to-seed fund with Bob Dykes and Steve Kaplan; portfolio includes Cyera, Luminance, Factory, and Lightrun.
Education: Stanford Engineering, Machine Learning Specialization (2024) · Stanford GSB, Managing Teams for Innovation (2017) · B.S. Computer Science, São Paulo University of Technology · B.S. Business Administration, FAAP.