SOFTWARE ENGINEER / WEB DEVELOPER · NEW ZEALAND
Most of my professional work is on the web. Outside of that, I spend my time experimenting with robotics, embedded systems, data and AI, and documenting what I learn along the way.
Currently building
A two-wheeled robot built to learn robotics
Latest Progress update, 27 Aug 2026Prove that stale IMU data commands zero PWM within the deadline on restrained hardware
Updates
Writing
Projects
Active AI
Turning an old car site into one that writes itself
Taking the archive from my old car site and building a pipeline that drafts, reviews and publishes new articles from it, with as little input from me as possible
Adding an originality check to the review gate, then testing the Pi-sized model
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Active Data
Corner-by-corner race data, so a ticket buys you something worth watching
Taking years of hand-gathered Formula 1 incident data and turning it into per-corner action stats and grandstand visibility guides, then rebuilding the pipeline behind it in SQL without changing a single published number
Finishing the SQL cutover, then adding a third circuit
Active Web
One component library, several client sites, and the release discipline that keeps them apart
A monorepo of shared Astro components published as an npm package, and the business of keeping eight independently deployed client sites running on the same code, where a version range quietly decides which of them get a bug fix.
Move the three sites pinned to 0.7.x onto 0.9.0, so the contact form fix actually reaches them
Active Web
A shop that loads like a brochure site, using a store the client already pays for
Selling real products through a static Astro site, with a build-time catalogue, a browser-side cart and Shopify's checkout, without a second Shopify subscription, split inventory or a line of theme code.
Live stock, so a painting sold since the last build stops looking available
Areas
Tools, libraries and things that run on a machine somewhere.
Front end, performance, and the platforms sites are built on.
Embedded systems, physical computing, and things that move.
Small datasets, where one wrong denominator changes the answer.
Automation that has to run unattended without publishing something false.
Photography and video, where they serve the technical story.
Professional work
I design and build production websites for small businesses through Iceni Web. If you need a website rather than a conversation about one, that is the door.
Open to employment, collaboration and open-source work. The problems I like best are the ones where nobody knows the answer yet.
