arcane@prod : ~/timeline
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// timeline

Experience

arcane@prod:~$ history --career

The whole journey in order — every role and every degree, newest first, laid out as one long descent through time.

Each entry carries its dates, its place, and the work that mattered there, and it is all rendered from the same résumé data the Construct uses, so the story on this page always matches the signed record.

Scroll down to travel backwards; the links at the end lead out to the live profiles.

  1. 2025 – 2028 (expected)

    PhD, Computer Science

    Griffith University

    Adaptive, self-reconfiguring multi-agent AI for real-time decision-making; confirmation passed April 2026. Supervisors: Dr Larry Wen, Dr Qinyi Li.

  2. Dec 2024 – Present

    Software & DevOps Engineer

    WealthGoal Software (formerly part of JDL Strategies) · Gold Coast, QLD

    Companies split late 2025; Gabriel engineered the separation. Two-engineer team; contractor structure.

    • Shipped a production voice-AI qualification agent — from a self-built AWS Bedrock (Nova Sonic) + Twilio prototype to a managed Retell platform — replacing the vendor's extraction with a PHP + GPT-4o-mini pipeline, live September 2025.
    • Built and deployed a standalone multi-tenant Django support portal (Python 3.12, Supabase, AI-assisted ticket triage) as sole engineer — 604 automated tests and live client workspaces on a functional-core architecture.
    • Delivered a production WhatsApp financial-qualification chatbot (FastAPI + GPT-4o-mini, 25-step conversation engine) in three days, with idempotent HMAC-validated webhooks, atomic opt-out compliance and a single-call prompt design that cut response latency ~50%.
    • Migrated two production servers to new AWS accounts with row-parity-verified database cutovers, and executed the corporate infrastructure separation of the two companies — vhosts, three Cloudflare zones and registrar EPP domain transfers.
    • Owned the AWS environment — WAF, three CloudFront distributions, ACM, GuardDuty and IAM — decommissioned a legacy stack saving ~US$18k/year, and rebuilt backups on EBS/DLM snapshots after finding the prior policy silently capturing none.
    • Designed and built a WireGuard site-to-cloud VPN linking an office QNAP NAS to AWS with an NFSv4.1/FileRun private-cloud share for the marketing team; after an outage broke it, root-caused the failure to CloudLinux CageFS/LVE namespace isolation and restored service.
    • Led estate-wide security hardening and incident response — a CSRF/SSRF/security-headers sprint across three servers (five adversarial QA rounds), a same-day SQL-injection scanner response, and an authorisation-gate content leak fixed across 163 files / 422 sites — alongside cPanel/WHM/Imunify360 and Exim/SES mail operations.

    LLMDjangoFastAPIAWSWireGuardDevSecOps

  3. 2024 – Present

    Casual Academic

    Griffith University · Gold Coast, QLD

    • Teach across Object-Oriented Software Development, Mobile App Development and penetration-testing / ethical-hacking courses; lead tutorials and lab sessions.

    teachingsecurity

  4. 2024

    Master of Information Technology

    Griffith University

    High Distinction, GPA 6.63/7.0; Griffith Award for Academic Excellence (2023 & 2024).

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