experience
Graduate Engineer
Tonkin & Taylor — Auckland, NZ
Feb 2025 – Present
- Developed an image processing and computer vision toolbox for Auckland Council's nine-camera coastal monitoring network, automating coastal erosion and hazard monitoring from oblique time-lapse imagery.
- Built a variational autoencoder-based model for generating stochastic synthetic rainfall data for dam yield analysis under climate change scenarios.
- Developed a stochastic rainfall extension combining Generalised Pareto Distributions and empirical resampling to extend hydrological records back to 1853, enabling 1000-year synthetic simulations with correlated extreme drought scenarios.
- Built and maintained a VB .Net simulation application for Watercare modelling Auckland's water supply system across reservoirs, rivers, and catchments, incorporating a reverse auction pricing mechanism and NPV-based optimisation to evaluate infrastructure investment scenarios.
- Processed and analysed large datasets using SQL, Python, and Excel to support project proposals and risk assessments; outputs delivered via Tableau dashboards.
Firmware AI Engineer
Teknique Ltd. — Auckland, NZ
Nov 2024 – Feb 2025
- Developed computer vision applications on the edge for tailored video-driven analytics.
- Prototyped deployment of multimodal models (CLIP) and YOLO to edge hardware — embedded C++ development with GStreamer pipelines on an evk board in a yocto-linux environment.
- Wrote C Linux drivers for the embedded computing environment.
- Integrated RAG and vector databases into a web-app enabling natural language querying of cached video footage.
Strategic Consulting Intern
Tonkin & Taylor — Auckland, NZ
Nov 2023 – Mar 2024
- Developed a proof-of-concept remote sensing tool using machine learning to predict algal blooms, encompassing data pipeline development and quantitative model building.
- Conducted market research for new service line opportunities, analysing market conditions and commercial viability.
- Automated Excel reporting workflows using Python and APIs, improving efficiency of data processing tasks.
Engineering Intern
Babbage Consultants — Auckland, NZ
Jun 2022 – Feb 2023
- Identified pricing discrepancies in Auckland's unmetered street lighting network, resulting in identified savings of up to NZ$2M per annum in excess electricity charges.
- Developed complex SQL queries to automate quality assurance processes across large relational databases.
- Applied statistical models to identify lamp rating anomalies, providing evidence for contract renegotiations.
education
University of Auckland
BE(Hons) Engineering Science
GPA 7.2 / 9.0
- Coursework: Probability & Statistics, Financial Modelling, Stochastic Simulation, Linear & Nonlinear Optimisation, Numerical Modelling, Embedded Systems
- Key skills: Mathematical Modelling, Statistical Analysis, Algorithm Design, Operations Research, Risk Analysis
projects
Food Supply Chain Economic Analysis
Systems Engineering · Financial Modelling · Cost-Benefit Analysis
Systems engineering project analysing New Zealand's food supply chain. Constructed 10-year discounted cash flow models with NPV, IRR, and cost-benefit ratio calculations across four policy intervention packages. Sensitivity analysis across economic, social, and environmental dimensions.