Hi! I'm Denzil, A Software Engineer based in Brisbane, Australia

Nuonic

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2023 to Present · Brisbane

Software Engineer

Jul 2022 to Jun 2023 · Brisbane

Australia's leading Fuel Tax Credit automation platform. Its Prism product runs forensic analysis of GPS and telematics data from 20+ providers to classify every segment of driving and idling as on-road or off-road.

• Delivered an agentic chat with tool calling that lets users query Fuel Tax Credit reports in natural language, cutting customer support queries by 20% and surfacing issues users had never raised.
• Built the Prism CORE module, processing 10M+ GPS points daily with Pandas, GeoPandas and NumPy to clean, normalise and validate data and calculate GPS apportionment.
• Led the Road User Charging Trial for the Dept. of Infrastructure & Transport, putting 1,000+ heavy vehicles into a government report that informed national RUC policy and earned a contract extension.
• Reduced a critical query from 8 minutes to under 30 seconds, a 16x gain, by consolidating a split-table schema and introducing PostgreSQL partitioning.
• Built a real-time GPS data service using async Python, WebSockets, SOAP, S3, EventBus and DynamoDB, simplifying access to 30+ telematics providers.
• Scoped and shipped automated emissions reporting calculated from GPS data; now a product solving compliance for 300 businesses.
• Set technical direction for the team's AI initiatives and mentored two engineers through code review and pairing.

Veresure

Founding Engineer (Secondment)

Dec 2025 to Mar 2026 · Brisbane

An independent platform that triages, advises on and manages whistleblower and workplace misconduct reports.

• Sole engineer on a greenfield LLM-powered triage platform, owning product, architecture, infrastructure, frontend, backend and deployment.
• Partnered with three non-technical founders to turn deep whistleblower industry knowledge into a technical roadmap and a defined MVP scope.
• Built a RAG pipeline pairing LLM inference with a pgvector knowledge base, with guardrails explicitly preventing inaccurate or legal advice.
• Added a PII anonymisation layer using Presidio to strip identifying information from user input before processing.
• Architected a serverless event-driven backend on AWS using FastAPI, Lambda, SQS and PostgreSQL, with the frontend in Next.js.
• MVP gathered feedback from over 100 commercial vendors and underpinned sales agreements against the next milestone.

DataFarming

Software Engineer

Feb 2021 to Jun 2022 · Toowoomba

A Toowoomba precision-agriculture company whose satellite imagery platform helps agronomists and growers make in-season decisions.

• Built asynchronous order processing pipelines with Python, asyncio and boto3, improving throughput and resilience for satellite imagery orders.
• Maintained and enhanced satellite imagery processing on AWS using GDAL and Rasterio across S3, EC2, Lambda and Step Functions.
• Designed and delivered REST APIs with FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy and Docker, under strict test-driven development.
• Optimised geospatial SQL on PostgreSQL for up to 80% faster API responses, monitored via Sentry.

AbilityMade

Software Engineer

Aug 2020 to Mar 2021 · Sydney

A Sydney for-purpose organisation making custom 3D-printed orthotics, built around the world's first instantaneous photogrammetry scanner for capturing a limb.

• Developed full-stack features for an assistive technology platform across Python backend APIs and React interfaces.
• Built a camera synchronisation module coordinating image capture across 12 Raspberry Pis using RabbitMQ.
• Worked in a small cross-functional team to identify user pain points and ship improvements with direct impact on the end-user experience.