8 years building backend systems that scale. Currently an Associate Lead Engineer at AD Group (Australia), where I lead development on cloud-native microservices platform using Laravel, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Elasticsearch.

I've led teams of 20+, owned backend architecture end-to-end, and driven hiring and onboarding from the ground up. My stack runs deep: PHP/Laravel at the core, layered with Docker, Redis, MySQL/PostgreSQL, and CI/CD pipelines built for high-throughput, distributed systems.

Lately I've been going deep on agentic AI. Building with Claude Code, MCP servers, and spec-driven development workflows. I believe the next phase of backend engineering is less about writing every line and more about designing systems where AI agents handle the heavy lifting.

Open to connecting on backend architecture, cloud systems, and agentic engineering.