An Introduction
I'm currently a Member of Technical Staff at Imbue, an AI lab on a mission to put humans in control of their software and agents. I'm passionate about understanding user problems deeply and delivering reliable systems and workflows.
I helped develop Sculptor which gave me early hands-on experience designing agentic development workflows and patterns. I still enjoy coding in Python and Go on my side projects and Rust is the latest addition to my toolset. I maintain Offload, a CLI tool for scalably executing automated test suites on remote on-demand infrastructure.
After nearly fifteen years of working in the San Francisco Bay Area for tech startups, I've returned to Auckland, New Zealand. I'm excited to get connected with the tech community here.
I infrequently write poems and short fiction, which you might be able to find if you look hard enough. I also like to practice Wing Chun Kung Fu and Eskrima and continue to have a fondness for Parkour.
A brief summary of my life experiences can be found in my resume.
Articles
I publish a list of my articles online here. These writings vary in nature from the technical to the whimsical.
Quiet in the Zoo
As we prepare to enter the second half of 2026, we’ve seen a rapid shift in the meta of vibe
engineering. The shape of software engineering that is
coalescing today appears to rely on deploying swarms of agents with defined roles to accomplish workflows together.
Swarming agents run in --yolo mode in sandboxes with an orchestration layer that enables them to communicate. The
central role of the developer lies in owning the overall vision, designing or selecting the shape of a swarm of agents
that best matches the problem, and then monitoring progress, reviewing when workflows reach stage gates or intervening
with clarifications. A majority of my daily workflow lies in managing and addressing the needs of my agents.
Other things I've built
- Hex-do-cube is Hexadecimal Sudoku played in a cube.
- Vocal Mirror is an automatic recording and playback tool for vocal practice.
- Third Timer is a time-tracking tool to help schedule your breaks in relation to how long you've worked. It's based on Third Time: A better way to work. The source code for Third Timer is on GitHub.
- Kickboxing Combo Trainer lets you drill rounds of randomized combos to improve your timing and movement. Rounds are categorised by the types of moves they include so you can customize the level of complexity, intensity and duration. The Kickboxing Combo Trainer source code is on GitHub.
- Meeting Cost Clock A clock that tells you how much a meeting is going to cost. This single page web app is written in Go with Moria, powered by GopherJS and Mithril. You can get the Meeting Cost Clock Source Code at GitHub.
- Varcaser A library written in Go for converting variables between different programming language casing conventions.
- Roconv is a library and command line utility written in Go to perform conversions to and from roman numerals in a unicode-aware way.
- Mixa (defunct). Mixa was a collaborative music composition environment. If music could be treated like source code, Mixa aimed to be github, allowing any listener to "fork" a composition and then edit it in our web app. Unfortunately no longer maintained or updated, but here's a technical report.