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 CS:ADL / admin crew, and I'm happy to say 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, and I enjoyed the problem solving.

A developer opportunity came to me through my Dad, a start-up in the strata / commercial property management space. I was able to grow my development chops rapidly, helping to build multiple greenfields MVPs.

Leading on from this, another development opportunity through my Dad, this time a basketball mate of his who ran a small software company, who managed had a logistics solution deployed to an impressive number of farmming clients across Australia and the US. This was an interesting and unique opportunity to grow some .NET/C#/Blazor MVVM skills, and work within unique real world constraints.

I am very happy where I am currently, with a great team, interesting product, growing clientbase, access to collabolrate with and learn from several highly experienced senior teammates, and continued potential for growth as a develoer.

I'm a jack of all trades working toward mastery in a few. There are certainly several projects in my shed I'm meaning to get back to.

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