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ASX-Listed Mining & Services Company

NOW
Nov 2025 — Present

  • Departments were spending 40 hours/week on manual slide design, so I built an AI PowerPoint agent that produced 2,000+ branded presentations across 12 departments, cutting turnaround from 2 days to under 5 minutes. Shipped before Anthropic or Microsoft Copilot had similar features
  • Enterprised 3 open-source platforms (Perplexica, SurfSense, Uptime Kuma) for internal deployment with Terraform IaC, Entra ID SSO, cross-account Bedrock access, and ECS Fargate across 3 environments, giving 500+ employees access to self-hosted AI search and real-time service monitoring
  • WHS compliance relied on error-prone spreadsheets, so I built SPRS (FastAPI, Next.js, Aurora Serverless) with fuzzy name matching, cutting processing time by 85% and eliminating recurring data errors
  • Non-IT employees were misclassifying tickets across 74,000 annual requests, costing $32 per ticket with 3+ day resolution times. Reverse-engineered ServiceNow's $50K/year Enterprise Agent and built our own AI service gateway with 56 MCP tools, a standalone web app, and an embedded ServiceNow portal widget, achieving 50% cost reduction and resolution in under 10 minutes

Feb 2025 — Nov 2025·Graduate Program

  • 6 operational sites relied on Excel/VBA macros for data management. Built Bulky on AWS Fargate (FastAPI, Next.js, Redis), eliminating 20 hours/week of manual data entry and justifying a dedicated full-time developer hire
  • Discovered a public-facing app with no authentication and brute-forceable user IDs exposing payment data. Shipped a Lambda@Edge auth gateway with JWT + Cognito in under a week, recognised at the company all-hands
  • Inherited a prototype from two non-developer engineers with no dev environment. Stood up the full stack, built core features (approval workflows, notifications, calendar), and shipped to production, reducing manual coordination by 60%
  • Took sole ownership of a commodities trading platform (React, GraphQL, Lambda, DynamoDB) that depended on an external contractor. Resolved all production issues and saved $150K/year in vendor costs
  • IoT asset hierarchies required days of manual configuration. Built an AWS IoT SiteWise Model Builder from concept to deployed demo in one week with drag-and-drop visual editing
  • Deployments took hours with frequent environment drift. Authored 19 Terraform modules and CI/CD pipelines across DEV/STG/PRD, cutting deployment time to minutes with near-zero drift

Project Management SaaS

Jul 2024 — Oct 2024·Remote

  • Key user workflows had low completion rates. Built and shipped features across the React frontend and Django REST API, improving conversion through critical journeys
  • Core UI components were causing user drop-off. Diagnosed and fixed the underlying bugs, improving retention metrics in affected workflows

Edith Cowan University

2022 — 2024·Perth, Western Australia

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS ECS/FargateAWS BedrockAWS SiteWiseAWS CDKLambdaCloudFrontRDS/AuroraDynamoDBS3SQSAPI GatewayIoT CoreGlueWAFRoute53SESECRTransit GatewayTerraformDocker

Backend

PythonFastAPIFlaskDjangoCelerySQLAlchemyPandasNode.jsTypeScriptGraphQL

Frontend

Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSViteshadcn/uiHTML/CSS

AI / ML

AWS BedrockLiteLLMRAG PipelinesComputer VisionGenAIOCRQdrantMCP ServersOpen WebUIAgentic Engineering

DevOps

Azure DevOpsCI/CD PipelinesTerraform CloudDockerOIDC/OAuthPlaywrightVitestn8n

Databases

PostgreSQLAuroraSQL ServerDynamoDBRedisOpenSearchRedshiftSupabase

Ben Laurenson at the summit of Tongariro Crossing, New Zealand

Tongariro Crossing

New Zealand