Project Highlights 2025

I spent most of 2025 balancing delivery velocity and technical quality for social impact startups at the intersection of health, finance and compliance.

2025 was a big year for tech adoption, AI continues to flood the space and smartglasses have made a promising late resurgence.

Most remarkable to me has been the growth and standardisation of AI developer tools, such as MCP for development. 2026 may be a interesting year for developers as the space continues to change.

Hold on tightly to those new shiny spanners, they're slippery!

Here's some of my personal delivery highlights.

Contents

• Lakehouse and Dynamic Data Analytics Pipelines
• Digital Identify Verification
• PayloadCMS and Content Management Systems
• Links

Lakehouse and Dynamic Data Analytics Pipelines

Spike tolerant, dynamic payload handling, real-time data fanout and source (pre-transformation) data analytics.

• Dynamic payload ingest
• Lakehouse patterns, raw -> structured -> analytics
• Unified columnar data storage, Parquet
• Fanout and real-time processing pipeline
• Query layer and analytics, meta-databases and Athena

Building data ingest pipelines that can handle unpredictable payload volume and shape was a great opportunity to take my serverless architecture skills to a new level.

Digital Identify Verification

Real-time third party bank identity verification for the NDIS with OpenID FAPI 2 (ConnectID).

As the first implementer of new OpenID Australia FAPI 2.0 RP ConnectID spec for bank account verification I worked closely with their SDK team and build a zero-trust data submission and identity verification platform.

PayloadCMS and Content Management Systems

My involvement with Binfluence has grown to include a rebuild of the working PoC into a new MVP for the coming 2026 launch.

I can't recommend building with PayloadCMS enough. Built on NextJS, PayloadCMS is a seriously versatile foundation for real development and enabling non-dev ICs to push low or no-code changes.

I'm hoping 2026 continues to bring open-source wins with Figma (should I stop holding my breath?)

PayloadCMS has a growing community. I've built a few extensions for common things like maps integration that I may push into open-source this year.

Links

Caresquare and ConnectID Partner, connectid.com.au

Secure bank-backed identity verification, securitybrief.com.au