Building intelligent systems from the Pacific Islands 🌊
Full-stack developer and AI specialist with 11 years of experience building enterprise solutions using .NET, Python, React, and Azure cloud infrastructure. Deep expertise in developing AI-powered applications including RAG-based chatbots, computer vision systems, and LLM integrations.
Proven track record delivering scalable SaaS platforms in higher education, finance, and telecommunications sectors. Currently building custom agentic workflows and AI solutions leveraging Azure AI Services and OpenAI APIs — from Suva, Fiji 🇫🇯.
📍 Suva, Fiji
🏢 Manager & Technical Lead @ KPMG
🤖 Building AI Agents & RAG Systems
🎯 11 Years of Software Engineering
- 🤖 Agentic AI workflows — Custom multi-step agents using Azure OpenAI + LangChain
- 🔍 RAG pipelines — Azure AI Search with vector embeddings + GPT-4 for enterprise knowledge retrieval
- ☁️ Cloud-native microservices — Event-driven architecture on Azure Container Apps
🏢 Manager & Technical Lead — KPMG, Fiji (Apr 2023 — Present)
- Architect and technical lead delivering enterprise AI solutions on Azure (.NET, Python, React)
- Built AI procurement chat agent using Azure AI Search (vector search) + GPT-4 and FastAPI — reducing vendor response validation time by 60%, processing 200+ inquiries/month
- Architected waste management image-classification solution achieving 92% accuracy, supporting 500+ daily submissions across 15+ sites
- Delivered curriculum management SaaS (React + .NET Core + Azure Functions) serving 15+ institutions, 5,000+ active users, and 99.9% uptime SLA
- Designed microservices on Azure Container Apps with Event Grid for ERP platforms (TechnologyOne/Ellucian), enabling real-time sync across 8 services
- Built Azure DevOps CI/CD cutting deployment time from ~2 hours → ~15 minutes
- Implemented GitHub Actions CI/CD, enabling 3x faster release cycles
- Achieved sub-1-hour MTTR through improved monitoring and escalation playbooks
- Lead cross-functional teams; mentor consultants as Performance Development Manager (PDM)
💻 Full Stack Developer — Acton Fiji (Oct 2018 — Feb 2019)
- Built bespoke finance and higher-education applications using C#/.NET Core with REST APIs and clean architecture patterns (SOLID)
- Developed backend services integrating SQL Server/Entity Framework and third-party APIs for high-traffic environments
- Implemented unit/integration testing (85% coverage) and CI/CD pipelines for reliable Azure deployments
🌐 Web Developer — Newcom Live, Digicel Group (Jul 2015 — Oct 2018)
- Built and maintained full-stack web applications and REST APIs for telecommunications customers across the Pacific region
- Optimized IVR and USSD applications to sustain 99.5% reliability for high-availability telecom services
- Delivered responsive, mobile-first UIs and integration services connecting internal and third-party telco platforms
🖥️ Developer — Oceanic Communications Ltd. (Jul 2014 — Jul 2015)
- Developed and maintained responsive websites/web apps (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript) and improved cross-browser performance
- Conducted QA and code reviews; streamlined deployment workflows for faster releases
Azure OpenAI · FastAPI · React · Cosmos DB · Azure Functions
Built a production-grade procurement AI agent for the public sector featuring:
- Streaming chat completions with Azure OpenAI, tool use, and function call orchestration
- Document extraction & evaluation workflows with context-aware validation
- Full-stack SPA (React + TypeScript/Vite) with real-time streaming responses and multi-user session management (~25 conversations/user)
- Seamless integration of local Python functions and remote Azure Logic Apps with graceful fallback
React 19 · Vite · FastAPI · Transformers.js · NLLB-200 · Web Speech API
Real-time English ↔ Fijian voice translation app running entirely in-browser:
- On-device neural machine translation using NLLB-200 (600M params) with 8-bit quantization for zero-latency inference
- Custom 7-stage DSP audio pipeline (Butterworth filtering, soft clipping, dynamic normalization) for native Fijian speech synthesis
- Privacy-first: 100% client-side ML inference — no data leaves the device
- Supporting underserved Fijian language with production-grade neobrutalist UI + Framer Motion animations
SvelteKit 5 · PostgreSQL · Drizzle ORM · Vercel · Zod
Production donations platform with Bank South Pacific payment gateway:
- HMAC SHA-256 cryptographic signatures with constant-time verification for secure transactions
- RESTful analytics API — 7 data views (success rates, payment trends, hourly distribution) with configurable pagination
- Full audit trails with 6 timestamps per transaction, JSONB gateway response storage
- Comprehensive security: PII sanitization, CSRF protection, bearer token auth, structured error handling across 11+ gateway error codes
Bachelor of Science in Computing Science & Information Systems University of The South Pacific, Suva — 2011 – 2015
