Nick AireyEngineering Director.

Role: Technical Leadership, AI Infrastructure design

June 2026 – present

• Lead team on design of NSW crown jewel application
• Safe integration of AI into regulated industry, inc. AI-SDLC development, LLM guardrail design and LLM governance

Role: Sovereign AI and global market offering development

March 2026 – present

• Develop Deloitte global market offering in Sovereign AI infrastructure
• VLLM, policy driven routing, open weight models for local inference, local hardware integration, observability
• in conjunction with hardware vendors & neo-cloud; DELL, Sharon-AI
• internal validation with Dell and Sharon AI, validating local inference cost (tokenomics), open weight performance against cloud models and policy driven routing. Validate observability and platform integration with Red Hat OpenShift
• prioritised the feature roadmap by stakeholder demand and implementation cost

Role: Deloitte Agentic Process Execution (APEX) platform

Oct 2025 – Feb 2026

• Agentic systems, co-operating agents for operational support
• built on: AWS Bedrock Agent Core, AWS Strands, AWS Bedrock MCP gateway
• built using Supervisor-Worker pattern (Multi-Agent System), an agentic design where supervisor agent allocates and evaluates worker agents' tasks
• AWS Marketplace deployment
• Production deployment at Deloitte Cyber SOC. Other clients are confidential.
• Business value: 66% reduction in Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) duration. APEX is involved in ~90 tickets per day in production.

Role: Technical Leadership

Oct 2025 – Nov 2025

• Critical public telephony and network infrastructure and systems strategic review and design
• CxO level reporting

Role: Technical Leadership, AI introduction support, AI-driven Application Modernisation

June 2024 – Sept 2025

• AI-driven legacy application modernisation for projects in java, python, C++
• Client team capability uplift in AI techniques and re-tooling, with general availability to all devs in division
• Developed and rolled out SAML integration with AWS (via AWS STS) from development containers, with general availability to all devs in division
• MCP service development to integrate LLM written code with internal containerised build systems, tuned to complex C++ build processes
• LLM-driven unit test case development, general availability. Later moved to Claude Code.

Role: Technical Leadership

Feb 2024 – July 2024

• Infrastructure and network review and hybrid infrastructure design

Role: Technical Leadership, Cloud Solution Architecture, Infrastructure Design

Jan 2021 – June 2023 and May 2024 – Aug 2024

• AWS infrastructure design to support strict multi-market data residency requirements
• Domain design and re-architecture of clinical systems, inc monolithic software decomposition into domain services
• Assess modifications to custom services in order to support US FedRAMP compliance process
• Design associated operational model and devops strategy

Role: Team Leadership, Systems Migration and Modernisation

Jan 2022 – July 2022

• Led team to migrate critical systems acquired as part of a business purchase into the bank
• Lead system modernisation to redesign and adapt systems to be hosted on AWS cloud, including migration to native cloud services and integration with internal systems.

Role: Team Leadership, API Design and Delivery

July 2020 – Dec 2020

• Led team to design and deliver critical public facing REST APIs for public interaction with government
• Part of the larger myGov initiative

Role: Technical Leadership, Systems and Data migration

Jan 2019 – Dec 2019

• discover, analyse and deliver a cloud migration to AWS including a full data centre exit, without business disruption.
• migration scope of 130+ applications, 350+ workloads, and petabyte scale data was delivered ahead of schedule and under budget, with world class execution and management

2017

Macquarie-side Technical lead on project to transition the divested Macquarie Life business from Macquarie Group to Zurich Life. Responsible for all technical aspects of project design, solution architecture, quality and timely delivery.

• Successfully migrated the technology, infrastructure and business of the divested Macquarie Life business to Zurich Life across originations, policy management and claims
• Delivered new Macquarie WRAP platform APIs to support new product ownership & trustee structures; delivered integrated AWS cloud archival and retrieval
• Delivered data models, build extract-view model, FK consistency checks, bulk extracts, control file hashes, linecounts, integrated encryption
• on-prem tapes to cloud including automated voice recording to text analysis (Key technologies: AWS S3, S3 Select, RDS, Transcribe, IAM, scripting)
• Project delivery in 14 months — an APAC record for divestment and integration of a business of this scale
• Line management of team of developers, BAs and testers

2013–2016

Technical team lead responsible for solution architecture, development and operational support of the Macquarie Life insurance technology platform supporting new business, national adviser network, claims and underwriting teams.

• Industry awards: 5 Star Adviser satisfaction from Beaton Benchmarks; Innovation Excellence from Canstar
• Delivered scalable, highly available infrastructure within a regulated industry, compliant for managing PII data
• Delivered the full technology stack: vendor application, in-house platform APIs, third-party service integrations, web interface, thick desktop client, mobile app
• Delivered in-house API integrations (REST, MA-TLS) across doc management, business workflow (Pega), policy management (Composer) and payment gateway
• Key technologies: service-oriented architecture, network load balancers, TLS, Microsoft SQL Server (TDE and AAG), Java, Linux scripting, encryption in transit and at rest
• Line management: tech lead, architect, BA, 4 devs, 2 testers, automation specialist, operations
• Macquarie Innovation Day Finalist (2016): designed ML system using client transaction history to suggest relevant products with opt-in specialist callback

2011–2013

Technical team lead responsible for solution architecture and delivery of new core APIs into Macquarie's 'Wrap' retail portfolio management platform in the area of partner integration and payment gateways.

• Delivered project on time against hard contractual deadlines, multiple stakeholders, late requirement changes and a complex platform
• Key technologies: service-oriented architecture, REST API design, load balancers, JBoss, Spring Batch, Oracle, Java
• Line management: tech lead, architect, BA, 3 devs, 2 testers, operations

2007–2011

Responsible for delivering enhancements to a real-time risk calculation platform running on private cloud, supporting equities and derivatives traders.

• Enhanced resilience: delivered 30% increase in average cloud uptime via automated process-failure detection and self-healing system
• Enhanced throughput: delivered load-independent throughput guarantees for distributed calculations via a fair queuing system for calculation job distribution
• Key technologies: UNIX shell scripting, Solaris OS primitives, Java services invoking C++, queueing algorithms, pure mathematics

2004–2006

Freelance consultancy and development in ecommerce, retail, infrastructure and government, primarily in web service integrations between corporates and government agencies.

• Lead software developer for NSW Police on Crimtrac integration project (NSW Police to Federal Police criminal records synchronisation) — high-availability Java proxy between inhouse mainframe and Federal Government SOAP API endpoint
• Development team leader on warehouse logistics system for Metcash/IGA

1999–2003

Various software development roles in ecommerce and network management.

• E-commerce developer at Citria (UK) on a CRM system for Barclays Bank
• Network driver developer at Orchestream (UK) — device drivers to control Cisco and Juniper routers

1992–1999

Alcatel was a major multinational manufacturer of networking infrastructure, responsible for 50% of Telstra's national network. Now part of Nokia Networks.

• Developed strategic software for System 12 telephone exchanges — at that time, half the PSTN telephone exchanges in Australia contained this code
• Worked in Alcatel development centres in Australia (Sydney), Belgium (Antwerp) and Germany (Stuttgart)
• Key technologies: IP networking, scripting, build systems, C++