I've been messing with technology for as long as I can remember, starting with JavaScript animations and Python scrapers, fascinated by how the virtual and real worlds could come together. My first real project was a Raspberry Pi thermostat, a turning point for me. Professionally that's been since 2018, across payroll, energy, banking and now fitness. Day to day I'm a product-focused engineer, happiest on the parts people actually touch: onboarding, experiments and design systems.
The hands-on side started around 2012, when my dad came home babbling about some internet currency the guys in his office were going crazy for. I was hooked, and that curiosity spread from a Bitcoin node on a Raspberry Pi to solar, battery storage and a pile of self-hosted services. I'm fanatical about repurposing and upcycling batteries, and I don't think the importance of energy storage can be overstated. The numbers in the Solar section above are live from my flat.
With an education in politics, I come at software from a slightly different angle. I love building products for people and with people, in collaborative teams researching, designing and building end to end. These days I'm freelancing as Inventing Mostly, currently rebuilding the back end of a creative talent platform.
A flavour of my toolset:
- TypeScript
- React / React Native
- Next.js
- Node / NestJS
- Python / FastAPI
- GraphQL
- Playwright / Cypress
- D3.js
- Docker / AWS
- A/B testing
