Head of Engineering building compliance SaaS at scale for Australian government. Operator of QVirtual — Australia's largest virtual airline. Passionate about PHP, Laravel, Linux infrastructure, and the intersection of aviation and software.
Leading engineering on a multi-tenant asbestos compliance SaaS platform serving Australian and New Zealand government agencies and enterprise clients. Led an incremental, zero-downtime migration from a legacy PHP 7.2 system to PHP 8.4 + Laravel + React — including an LLM-powered natural language query layer, React Native mobile app (iOS & Android), and complete Azure infrastructure migration.
Took over development of Australia's largest virtual airline (est. 2011), rebuilding and scaling it on a fully custom PHP/Laravel platform. Flight planning API integrations, automated PIREP acceptance, ACARS/SimConnect flight tracking, and a full gamified pilot economy. AMDB integration is next on the roadmap.
Flight simulation isn't a hobby — it's a second engineering domain. I've spent years building production software for virtual aviators, and the tools I use as a simmer directly inform what I build as a developer.
Through QVirtual, I have hands-on experience with flight planning APIs — OFP ingestion, dispatch validation, and automated flight plan workflows running in production today.