NewPaper Pty Ltd
Centurion
Applied AI Engineer
Nov 2025 — Present- Built and deployed an AI assistant for NewPaper's modular project management platform — enabling teams to query tasks, time logs, leave balances, and reports through natural language using RAG over internal product data.
- Designed intelligent automation workflows across NewPaper's module ecosystem — auto-generating invoices from tracked hours, surfacing payslip discrepancies, and drafting team status summaries from task and time tracking data.
- Integrated LLM-powered features into NewPaper Spaces and Chat — smart message summarisation, meeting note extraction, and context-aware notifications for managers and team leads.
- Architected the AI backend using FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and vector search, with real-time streaming responses and role-based access control aligned to NewPaper's permission model.
- Monitored and optimised AI system performance — latency, token usage, cost, and hallucination rates — through prompt engineering, retrieval tuning, and evaluation harnesses.
Software Engineer
Apr 2023 — Aug 2023- Engineered core modules of NewPaper's modular project management platform — building the team management, time tracking, and task assignment interfaces in React and TypeScript.
- Developed the REST API layer in Node.js for real-time data across modules — time logs, leave requests, role-based access control, and reporting dashboards.
- Built the NewPaper Spaces and Chat mobile apps for Android and iOS using React Native, Kotlin, and Swift, including native modules for push notifications and offline sync.
- Integrated cross-module workflows — time tracking to invoicing, leave management to payslips — enabling teams to generate accurate financial documents from tracked data.
- Shipped features through Agile sprints, from architecture and implementation to testing and deployment on AWS.
