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.
How You Detach Sticky Notes Affects How Well They Stay Attached
I wanted to share this little life-hack about how the way you pull a sticky note 1 off a stack affects the quality of its adherence and its duration. To make the sticky note stick better, pull the note off the stack almost tangential to the plane of all the notes, straight along the direction of the text. If you’re having trouble picturing it, read on and the rest of this article will clarify as well as go into detail about why this works.
Keep readingOther 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.