Sydney, Australia
Brent Maxwell
Executive technology leader. Builder of teams, products, and companies.
I build high-performing engineering organizations and ship ambitious products. Four-time CTO, former AWS Senior Solutions Architect, and now Group Chief Technology Officer at Software Combined, where I lead product innovation and AI across a portfolio of B2B software companies. Most recently Chief Technology Officer at Synthetix, where we built a high-frequency derivatives exchange in four months.
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Professional
A career in scaling teams and shipping product
CTO four times. Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. Specialist in engineering velocity, zero-to-one building, and nurturing leaders.
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Public
Talks, press, and appearances
Where I show up publicly -- videos, articles, podcasts, and conference talks.
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Personal
What I read, watch, listen to, and play
Media shelves pulled live from Hardcover, Letterboxd, Steam, and Spotify. The non-work side.
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Blog
Notes on building things
Long-form writing on engineering leadership, AI, platform, and the patterns I keep coming back to.
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The Fan Was the SIEM - How my AI agent Found a Cryptominer in My Homelab
I vibecoded an app with security issues. My Hermes Agent helped me diagnose and fix it within 1 minute.
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How to Mature an Engineering Function Through the AI Maturity Curve
If the AI maturity model describes the stages of capability, the next question is more practical: how should an engineering organisation actually move through them?
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How To Transform a 7 Year Old Company in 9 Months
Notes from the CTO: A Short History of Re-Building Synthetix Perps