I am currently undertaking a Master of Philosophy (Computing) at Curtin University in Perth. I have 14+ years of software engineering experience as a Senior Java Backend / Software Engineer specialising in Java, Spring Boot, enterprise applications and backend systems. Strong experience across fintech/banking, payments, IoT/router platforms, communications and large-scale web applications. Hands-on with Spring Boot, Quarkus, JPA/Hibernate, EJB, JAX-RS/JAX-WS, WildFly/JBoss, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, Gradle and Maven. Experienced in Agile/Scrum teams, production troubleshooting and building reliable backend services.