I build things that survive contact with reality.
I've been writing software for most of my life.
Over the years, I've worked on developer infrastructure, distributed systems, consumer products, AI systems, healthtechs, edtechs, 2D games, and more than a few ideas that probably should have remained ideas.
These days I'm particularly interested in AI, product engineering, and using software to attack messy real-world problems.
I like taking things from:
"Wouldn't it be interesting if..."
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architecture diagrams
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questionable decisions
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working software
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users
That last arrow is where it all comes together.
A few things currently occupying brain cycles:
Software for tattoo artists — from AI-assisted visualisation and body placement to stencil generation, print scaling, booking, and the less glamorous parts of actually running a tattoo studio.
computer vision · generative AI · design tooling · SaaS
Exploring privacy-first infrastructure for accessing medical testing and other health services in environments where discretion actually matters.
healthtech · privacy · identity · logistics
Thinking about how software, financing, telemetry, and distributed energy systems can make reliable, green power less absurdly expensive.
energy · IoT
An experiment in giving AI systems something closer to organisational agency: context, tools, memory, coordination, and responsibility for outcomes rather than isolated prompts.
agents · LLMs · infrastructure · future-of-work
useful > impressive
shipping > theorising
leverage > headcount
simple > clever
evidence > vibes
I'm interested in software as a force multiplier -- not another CRUD application or chatbot, but systems that let one competent person do the work that previously required ten.
I've spent roughly 18 years building software professionally and otherwise, including engineering work in Big Tech, and time as a CTO / technical co-founder in fintech and edtech.
I briefly went to medical school for a few years too. Long story.
I read a lot (see my website for my current reading list), play an unreasonable amount of pool, and occasionally disappear down medical or neuroscience rabbit holes.