I make what matters

How can I help?

Twenty years building technical teams and shipping digital systems and AI in regulated environments. I've built teams from scratch, led pre-sales technical engagements, and delivered production systems at federal scale across Australia and New Zealand. I combine deep technical fluency with the ability to explain complex systems to non-technical executives. My digital and AI roadmaps have been used by Ministers, built technical champions inside customer organisations, and run POCs that turned into production deployments. I write code, read research papers, and can hold my own with engineering teams. I also know how to hire, coach, and scale a team in an unstructured environment.

Published research: researchgate.net/profile/david-berigny
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/davidberigny

Recent achievements

AI investment portfolio: built the narrative for 50-plus budget bids across a $1 billion federal digital and AI portfolio. Protected AI-enabled investments in the final allocation. Digital Trust Framework: designed authentication, identity, AI governance, and verifiable credentials for 10 million-plus users. Secured executive sign-off across federal agriculture portfolios. National traceability platform: took concept to $11 million federal grant. Ran 300-plus stakeholder sessions, integrated IoT systems and digital identity, and achieved 100 percent onboarding success. AI-assisted research toolkit: designed the product foundation that contributed to a $1 million pre-seed raise.

Published: "Governing Hybrid AI for Institutional Resilience" - ResearchGate

Some of my work

AI/ML Connected Policing

$1B Digital and AI Portfolio

AI Research Toolkit

National Traceability Platform

Digital Trust Development

Digital Health Platform

Westpac Mobile Banking

Inclusive Access Redesign

Macquarie Banking

David Berigny

"David is an extremely talented service designer who really understands how to establish the core needs of the users and is able to then satisfy those requirements with elegant, simple, and intuitive solutions. He is a remarkably confident public speaker who finds it easy to convey the problem space and its challenges with a wider audience. I greatly enjoyed my time working with him, it's rare to find someone so knowledgeable, so empathetic to the user, and who is also eminently likeable as a person. I hope I get to work alongside him again one day." — James Cutts (Principal Designer, Bolt.com)

"Working with David has been a transformative experience in my career journey. His mentorship has not only enhanced my storytelling abilities and refined my UX portfolio but also instilled a profound confidence in my own capabilities. David’s approach fosters human creativity, equipping individuals to navigate and lead in the ever-evolving digital landscape. By guiding me to view career challenges through the lens of UX problem-solving, David has empowered me to embrace change and recognise the value of my experiences. He has prepared me to make a tangible impact in my career." — Nina Cogan (Product Manager, MinterEllison)

"David is a shining example of what happens when you get someone who is creative, passionate, intelligent and resourceful, and then combine it with an easy going, relaxed, non-ego driven and ethical designer. As the design stream lead on AMP's award winning collaboration platform, I was lucky enough to work very closely with Dave. He is responsible for the amazing visual design, responsive design and building the key user interactions. Not an easy feat on a platform plagued with usability issues out-of-the-box. I found Dave always keen to discuss ways to adapt the design based on usability testing results, and his non ego driven attitude made it incredibly easy to iterate the design to a point that it was something we are all exceptionally proud of. Dave also came up with the winning idea to create an internal gift economy in AMP, the result of which is a collaborative art piece permanently hung in AMP's foyer. I cannot recommend Dave highly enough, it's a lucky team that gets the joy of working with him." — Octavia Maddox (Chief Product Officer, Kmart & Target)

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