I turn product ideas into shipped, correctness-critical software.
Senior software engineer and technology builder with 12 years of experience across banking, food tech, health software, enterprise SaaS and founder-led products. I work from product definition through architecture, implementation and production operation.
AI agents, Model Context Protocol tools and reusable skills are part of my normal engineering toolchain. Generated output still goes through explicit design, testing and review.
- Building internal automation that supports accurate, consistent security-advisory decisions at a major bank.
- Reduced recurring online-ordering outages at a food business from about eight per week to zero through infrastructure, caching, SQL and API work.
- Created and maintained pH7Builder, an open-source platform with 13 years of history and more than 11,000 commits.
- Designed and implemented my own programming language and related developer tools.
- Created four software-engineering courses with more than 225,000 combined enrolments.
- Publish technical work through YouTube and Substack.
Wellington, New Zealand is my primary market. I am also open to Australia and remote teams.
The strongest role fits are Senior or Lead Software Engineer, AI Product Engineer, Founding Engineer, Principal Software Engineer, and Software or Solution Architect.