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Work Experience

• Forward Deployed Engineer (Contract), Palantir

  Jun, 2026 - Present

  Deployed to a high-profile Australian Federal Government agency, delivering on the Palantir Foundry platform, Canberra, ACT (hybrid).

  • Embedded in an existing engineering team building and maintaining applications on Palantir Foundry used daily by analysts

  • Design data models in the Palantir Ontology and build the API endpoints that expose them to downstream applications

  • Build and maintain Foundry data pipelines, and deliver user-facing interfaces in Workshop alongside custom React applications built on the Ontology SDK (OSDK)

  • Work in restricted, regulated environments with separated networks, including development against a low-side dataset structurally equivalent to production and remapped on deployment to the high side

  • Integrate a COTS platform with agency and third-party systems: Python transformations of audit logging output into Splunk, and structured extracts consumed by Grafana and business intelligence tooling

  • Run structured code reviews and define unit, integration and end-to-end test cases at delivery checkpoints

• Self-Directed Development & Portfolio Work, Independent Projects & Professional Development

  Aug, 2025 - May, 202610 months

  Canberra, ACT. Self-directed period focused on cloud and AI upskilling and shipping production-grade portfolio work. Operating as Weidenhaus Pty Ltd since May 2026.

  • Built and operate ACT Crime Statistics, a public dashboard (~3,000 monthly users) with an AI/NLP pipeline classifying ACT Policing releases into ~1,500 structured incidents at ~98% accuracy

  • Built and operate ACT Mobile Speed Cameras, a public dashboard mapping mobile speed camera deployment across the ACT from government open data

  • Built Weidenmap, a humanitarian coordination platform giving aid teams a live shared operating picture of who does what, where and when across agencies

  • Earned three cloud certifications during this period (AWS CLF-C02, Azure AZ-204, Azure AZ-900); also completed the Palantir Foundry & AIP Builder Foundations assessment

• Senior Software Engineer, Rhize Manufacturing Data Hub

  May, 2025 - Aug, 20254 months

  Remote, Australia.

  • Built backend services, system integrations and CLI tooling in Go for the manufacturing data hub, including connectors linking the platform to external and shop-floor systems

  • Built reusable React/TypeScript components consuming real-time streaming data from GraphQL endpoints to expose live manufacturing data, modelled against ISA-95

  • Designed secure data pipelines for sensitive manufacturing datasets; maintained quality with automated test suites

• Senior Developer (Contract), Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

  Jul, 2023 - Apr, 20251 year 10 months

  Remote, Australia.

  • Built a full-stack research activity tracking platform on AWS: TypeScript/React frontend, TypeScript/Node backend and data integration, with Astro for static site delivery

  • Built secure federated authentication for a national research platform (AAF, SAML, OAuth 2.0/OIDC), integrating hosted identity providers including AWS Cognito and Keycloak

  • Delivered React and Java Spring services linking five universities across three continents

  • Designed a secure API gateway for multi-provider data synchronisation

  • Built an AWS CI/CD pipeline: PR gates (lint, tests, secrets, deps), image scanning, post-merge E2E into EKS

  • Defined and deployed AWS infrastructure as code with the AWS CDK, provisioning EKS workloads and supporting services

  • Instrumented EKS-hosted services with CloudWatch logs, metrics, alarms and tracing for production observability

  • Wrote system design and security documentation supporting authorisation of a government platform

• Independent Engineer, Self-Employed

  Jan, 2023 - Jun, 20236 months

  Turramurra, NSW.

  • Independent engineering and professional development

  • Pro-bono for the Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief Institute (HADRI): built a pilot disaster response platform (React, cloud services); AI/NLP pipeline parsing news sources for incident detection over live weather and bushfire mapping; RBAC authorisation for multi-role access; Python geospatial pipelines across multi-source feeds

• Full Stack Engineer, Linktree

  Feb, 2022 - Dec, 202211 months

  Remote, Australia.

  • Built YouTube embed support, lifting time-on-site on a platform serving 50+ million users

  • Built a Python tool that scanned cloud configurations platform-wide, reducing AWS resources with overly permissive access by over 80%

  • Developed React UI components, applied secure design patterns, and ran architecture reviews

• Independent / Contract Engineer, Independent & contract engineering - Germany, Switzerland & Australia

  Jan, 2018 - Dec, 20214 years

  Independent, contract and short-term engagements during two international relocations. Real clients and employers, with their real titles where roles were salaried.

  • SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany; Senior Developer, Jun 2020 - Dec 2020): contributed to SAP Graph (unified product-suite API) and built data-driven SAP Fiori UI components interacted with by hundreds of millions of users across SAP's product suite

  • eBay Motors: 360-degree vehicle viewing feature (Australian and Canadian markets)

  • Arup (Sydney): full-stack web applications with Python-based spatial tools for urban planning, and mobile apps giving field teams access to underground infrastructure data

  • Destined (Sydney): bidirectional data integration middleware between customer systems and Salesforce for a Platinum Salesforce partner

  • German SMB clients: workflow and integration tools

  • Independent technical R&D: extensive Go (API development) and C (systems profiling)

• Development Expert, SAP SE

  Jan, 2012 - Jun, 20186 years 6 months

  Walldorf, Germany.

  • Led an agile team of five building a full-stack product-adoption analytics suite that surfaced never-before-seen usage aggregations to SAP executives, processing millions of daily records spanning hundreds of megabytes of structured and unstructured data

  • Built the suite end to end: Angular frontend, PHP API layer, and Python data-import pipelines feeding the executive reporting views

  • Built a role-based access control (RBAC) system with audit logging for 5,000+ global users

  • Mentored junior developers through pairing until they extended the platform independently

  • Kept the platform compliant with European data protection law (pre-GDPR and GDPR)

  • Ran the full SDLC from stakeholder requirements through deployment and sustainment

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