High horsepower, low ego. Let's work together.
Security engineering with a strategic-studies and commerce background. I read attack surfaces, balance sheets, and strategic environments. I've been told I'm too smart for a role. Fair enough: I'd rather prove useful on the job than talk myself out of it. Open to any work, anywhere, at any level, and I'm here to stay.
Through-line
My edge isn’t dabbling. It’s being able to move between how systems break, how power works, and how incentives shape behavior, then ship something useful.
How things break and hold: threat intel, DFIR, malware analysis, and low-level engineering when the binary still has secrets left.
Power, coercion, institutions, and the Asia-Pacific. Technology as an instrument of statecraft, not just a stack choice.
Incentives, organizations, and financial instincts from a commerce background. Reading a balance sheet with the same care as a packet capture.
Craft
Turning noisy telemetry and narrative signals into actionable IOCs, escalation models, and operator-ready reporting.
Static/dynamic reverse engineering, PCAP forensics, and decryption tooling when the binary still has secrets left.
Hypervisors, honeynets, SIEM ingestion, and polyglot pipelines where performance and memory safety actually matter.
Selected work
Path so far
Independent
Hands-on detection engineering, network forensics, and adversary TTP analysis. Mapped a full MITRE ATT&CK kill chain for a dual-C2 ransomware sample in under 48 hours, maintains a containerised Linux DFIR lab in Docker, and publishes interactive malware-traffic write-ups alongside systems work on hypervisors and geospatial anomaly detection.
Bupper
Co-founded New Zealand's first quantum computing company. Secured NZ's first access to D-Wave infrastructure through a year-long government negotiation, integrated IBM Quantum and IQM APIs, and translated post-quantum risk into decision-grade briefings for ministers and senior officials. Invited to present at an IBM quantum conference on gaps in NZ's quantum ecosystem. Startmate Top Founders (2025); shortlisted for the Startmate Summer 2025 Accelerator extended fellowship track.
U.S. Embassy Wellington
Briefed Ambassador Tom Udall and State Department officials on Asia-Pacific security architecture and NZ-AUKUS participation after selection through a competitive national process. Produced OSINT-informed strategic briefings on AUKUS and maritime policy for diplomatic audiences.
Startmate
Partnered with early-stage deep-tech ventures to turn complex technical IP into commercial narratives and go-to-market strategies, synthesising market dynamics with technical constraints inside the Australasian startup network.
University of Auckland
Client consulting across healthcare and beverage sectors. Built a Latin American market-entry strategy for a NZ beverage company, and an evidence-based recommendation against North American healthcare entry into NZ after cost, payback, and addressable-market analysis.
Victoria University of Wellington
US-China strategic competition, East Asian security, cyber operations, and AI/quantum as instruments of coercive statecraft. Thesis on US and Chinese 5th-generation aerospace capabilities as tools of coercive signalling in the Asia-Pacific, with implications for NZ security posture (supervisor: Dr. Manjeet Pardesi). Awarded with Merit.
University of Auckland
Double major in International Business and Innovation & Entrepreneurship, including NDA-covered consulting projects for external clients in healthcare and beverage.
Hire me
If the résumé looks sharp, that doesn't mean I'll get bored and leave. I'm here to stay. Flexibility on title and place isn't a stepping stone or a flight plan. I want a team worth building with, and I'll put roots down. Happy at any level if the work and the people are right. Say hello and I'll send a CV.
Wellington, New Zealand · Dual NZ and US citizen
