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He trained in architecture at the University of Bath and the University of Sydney. Five years at Grimshaw from 2012, primarily in the Sydney studio with later time in the New York office. Competition bids and early-stage concept design across civic, commercial, and infrastructure projects: Aspire Tower, the Sandstone Precinct, and the Chicago and DC Union Station masterplans.

In 2016 he founded Hessian Design, a Sydney visualisation and design studio working with a group of Australia's top-tier architects and with developer clients including Mirvac and Lendlease. Residential, civic, and masterplan-scale work under real deadlines.

Kiln was founded in 2019 and shifted the practice toward New York–based architects and developers: Tishman Speyer, Silverstein Properties, and a long-running collaboration with Michaelis Boyd on interiors that pulled Oliver into private residential design direction across Manhattan, LA, London, and Scotland.

Oliver's team took first prize at the Dubai Urban Elements Challenge, an international open competition juried by Snøhetta's Jette Hopp and Calatrava's Andrew Mason.

A five-month strategic advisory engagement for a global architecture practice, diagnosing design communication at the scale of a multi-studio firm. The engagement produced a written quality framework, a modular set of narrative components, and a structural recommendation for how creative direction could be held across offices.

Co-founder of Lief, a behavioural-recognition platform. Building a team and shipping a regulated product, which feeds directly back into how Kiln advises practices on systems and scale.