About

I'm a 31-year-old Adelaide-based software developer, husband, and dad of two, trying to balance code, creativity, family, and coffee.

Outside work I'm cleaning, cooking, listening to or playing music, fixing my Ender 5, or starting a new hobby.

My technology journey kicked off at 15 in 2009 when I built my first gaming PC. The monthly Streetgeek LAN put me among older tech enthusiasts and gamers I wanted to be like. The ad-hoc gigabit network for ~150 seats blew my mind and nudged me toward "big data" and a future with computers. I aspired to be like the big CS:ADL / admin crew, and I'm happy to know I saw it through to my career.

I wanted hands-on work early, so I picked up a helpdesk/sysadmin role at the start of uni. Uni took two extra years as a result, but pure theory wasn’t going to cut it. The jack-of-all-trades nature of those roles suited me.

I found development work through my dad twice. Greenfield problems + freedom to build + increased impact potential became the new holy trinity. I've got a great employer who has a great allowance for family flexibility, so I'm very happy where I am currently.

I'm also a musician, music obsessive, an avid (non-paper) reader, lifelong technologist, aspiring maker, and professional hobbyist—approaching all of it with the same systematic curiosity.

I'm a jack of all trades working toward mastery in a few. Ambition says “do it all,” reality forces curation—so I try to work on projects with the highest leverage and satisfaction, within the budget.

I'm both a cat and dog person—don’t make me choose. Pet rats are great, wild ones: less so.