About
I'm a technologist passionate about many topics. At present I work as a Senior Edge Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), based in Sydney, Australia. With a focus on Edge Services and cloud architecture, I help organisations design and implement secure, high-performance web applications that scale globally.
Views and opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent those of AWS.
Expertise
- AWS Edge Services — CloudFront, Shield Advanced, WAF
- Serverless — Lambda, Lambda@Edge, API Gateway, CloudFront Functions
- Infrastructure as Code — AWS CDK, CloudFormation
- Development — Python, Go, Node.js
- Security-first architecture at global scale
Interests
- Web application security & open source WAF (OWASP CRS, ModSecurity, Coraza)
- Distributed systems & content delivery
- AI tooling & coding assistants
- Serverless architectures
Speaking
- AWS re:Invent 2025 — State of the Edge: Delivery of the web with CloudFront, WAF, & Shield (NET211)
- AWS re:Invent 2024 — Protecting against DDoS events (CDN306)
- AWS re:Inforce 2024 — How Catch Group uses AWS WAF Bot Control (NIS306)
- AWS re:Invent 2023 — Designing a secure perimeter with cost in mind