Member Directory

Ramiro Román is Chief People Officer at YAKKA, a labour hire company in Sydney that supplies construction, warehouse and cleaning workers across Australia. The company can fill a role the same day when a worker nearby is free, and it also offers an app for shift work. Ramiro also works as a data scientist, focuses on ethical AI and the future of work, and uses Gemini, Cursor and Figma Make in day-

Eddie Machaalani is co-founder and CEO of Zarla, an AI website builder for small businesses in Sydney. He also co-founded BigCommerce and helped start Zarla in 2019 with Adam Seabrook. Today Eddie focuses on a product that turns one sentence about a business into a complete website, with copy, photos and search settings.

Gravl is an AI personal trainer for strength training. It builds your plan, coaches you through every set, and tells you exactly how much weight to lift next time. AUTOMATIC PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD Gravl estimates your one-rep max from your logged history and prescribes the next ses

Jayzo Mods works as a developer at OG Digital Designs, a web design business that builds websites and brand kits for Sydney businesses, including tradies, cafés and clinics. Jayzo's public GitHub portfolio includes OG Job Book, a web app that takes an Australian job from quote through to invoice and recorded payment.

With over a decade in the industry, my expertise in software engineering has been honed by developing cutting-edge underwater vehicle software and transforming backend systems for grocery e-commerce. At the heart of my work lies a dedication to crafting maintainable code and robust automation systems, which are essential in today's fast-paced tech landscape.From building custom Linux distributions

Navid Ghobadpour is an independent AI engineer in Sydney who builds autonomous AI agents for cybersecurity, threat detection and security operations. He also works as an instructor at Outlier, with a background in AI, cybersecurity and AWS solution architecture. Navid's public projects include an agentic security operations platform that uses multi-agent workflows and MITRE ATT&CK mapping to help

Aaron Saikovski is the founder and Technical CTO of WickedAILabs, a Sydney AI consulting, development and platforms company that helps organisations adopt, build and scale AI-driven solutions. Aaron has also worked since early 2026 as a freelance Forward Deployed Engineer in applied ML and AI at PwC Australia. On GitHub, Aaron publishes open source projects, including AppleWin-rs, a cross platform

Toby Hede is VP of Engineering at CipherStash, a Sydney company that builds queryable encryption for Postgres, so teams can search data that stays encrypted in the database. He is a hands-on engineer and technical leader with more than 20 years of experience. He is also known for open-source work such as go-underscore, a Go utility library, and postgresql-event-sourcing.

Sum Abiut is a Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer based in Sydney, working independently on Polyglot AI, a multi-provider AI coding assistant and desktop IDE for Linux. Sum has worked as a DevOps Engineer at Titan FX since 2021, focused on Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and Terraform, and holds a Masters in Information Technology. Sum also leads an unofficial Claude Desktop for Linux project and publish

Arthur Guelennoc is an AI Engineer at Arista Networks in Sydney, where he builds AI systems, evaluations and agents. Arista makes cloud and data center networking products. Before Arista, he worked at Cisco on customer solutions and contributed to Safran's open-source machine learning library for physics simulations. He studied at EPITA and now works on world models and state space architectures,

Amit Saha is a software and data consultant in Sydney who runs Common Loop Works, which helps teams ship reliable software, improve platform reliability and build practical AI and data systems. He is a software engineer who has worked at Freelancer.com and Atlassian. He is also the author of the books Doing Math with Python and Practical Go, and has contributed to open source projects including Sy

Security professional with 18 years in the industry and a decade specialising in Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR), Threat Intelligence and AI. Experienced in threat hunting, research and incident response at scale. Proven track record building DFIR capability, uplifting teams, and contributing to open-source projects.

Yasiru Rangana is an AI Architect and AI Engineer in Sydney, Australia, who designs and builds production AI systems with generative AI, RAG and agentic AI. Yasiru is also a doctoral researcher at Western Sydney University, working on small object detection in fast-moving video, with a paper on roadkill and computer vision published at IEEE ABC 2025. Yasiru has contributed code to the open-source

Kirk Baird is Executive Director at Sigma Prime, a Sydney-based blockchain security and research firm that audits smart contracts, zero-knowledge systems and blockchain infrastructure for protocol teams. He began as a security engineer there, with a focus on cryptography, and wrote on Lighthouse, the Ethereum consensus client the firm built. Kirk has since published audit guides on Reth node revie

Ben Boyter is a software developer in Sydney who runs searchcode.com, an MCP server that gives AI coding assistants structured code intelligence for public git repositories. He has been a Principal and Technical Lead at Kablamo since 2017, working in Go, Java, C# and AWS. He is known for scc, an open source code counter written in Go, and cs, a command line code search tool. His current focus is s

Ben Bauert is the Founder and CEO of Facilitate, a technology company that helps organisations build engaging, interactive training using VR and AI. Before founding Facilitate in 2016, Ben studied political science, sociology and law and then worked as a corporate and commercial lawyer in Perth. He now focuses on immersive training as a more effective alternative to classroom learning, and he writ

Abid Ali is the Founder and CEO of SpendConsole.ai, a Sydney-based company building an AI-powered accounts payable and payables orchestration platform that helps enterprise finance teams automate invoice-to-pay, meet e-invoicing rules such as PEPPOL, and reduce fraud risk. Before founding the company in 2021, Abid spent about 20 years in eProcurement, delivering more than 40 Procure to Pay transfo

Dane Meah is CEO and Co-Founder of MyCISO, a Sydney-based security operating system that helps CISOs, IT leaders and managed service providers assess, manage and report on cybersecurity across more than 65 frameworks. He co-founded the company in 2021 and has led its launch in Australia, and he describes himself as an ASX director. Dane is now expanding MyCISO into the US, working with partners su