The long version.

I started my career in aviation, then moved into software engineering. Different industry, same instinct: work out what actually has to hold before anyone commits to anything.

Since then the work has moved between agencies, startups, and in-house teams — full-stack throughout, from the interface to the infrastructure underneath, and always as part of a team rather than instead of one. Two of those years were spent teaching full-stack JavaScript, which is still the best thing I’ve done for the way I read other people’s code.

Right now I’m the lead engineer on VERA, a platform that runs behavioural and VR studies end to end, and I build HoloMetrics — portfolio analytics for trading card collections — on my own time.

A good deal of the rest is public. SchemaPress brings structured content types to WordPress, a headless starter turns Advanced Custom Fields data into a REST contract a front end can rely on, and OfferPilot sits on a model-agnostic generation layer. Open source is where I try the things client work can’t carry the risk of, and where the reading goes both ways.

Thirteen years of moving between those settings has left a short list of positions I keep returning to. They’re arguable, and most of them have been argued — which is rather the point.