about me

present

I work as a software engineer, but I’m a hardware guy at heart. I’ve enjoyed working at big companies and early-stage startups, but have been leaning more toward industrial design work recently.

I run a lot, explore the mountains and tinker with cameras in my spare time.

past

• 🇳🇿 I was born and raised in Greytown, in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand.

• 🤖 I studied Mechatronics at Massey University, but it was a heavily robotics focussed curriculum. That’s where I learned to code. I built a robot that could pick up really small things, and wrote a paper about it

• ✈️ After uni, I took a Control Systems Engineering job at a consultancy. We designed systems that would safely get fuel to fighter jets (among other, much less sexy things).

• 🗼 I wanted to focus on code, so I moved on to a role at Transpower, NZs national grid operator. NZ has ~23,000 transmission towers and they all need looking after. I built models that would predict which towers needed the most attention.

• 🌍 Then, I wanted to travel. I sold everything I had and spent 6 months travelling Europe and the UK. The energy sector roped me back in, and I wound up working for National Grid via my employer, Mesh-AI, developing AI-powered planning tools.

• 🚀 Recently, I had a stint at a manufacturing AI startup, Matta, as their second engineering hire. That was a blast. However, adventure called…

• 🥾 I’m currently on a sabbatical to reflect on my time overseas and choose my next move carefully. I’ve motorcycled from London to Morocco, hiked in the midnight sun in Norway, spent a few months on the Pacific Crest Trail, and now I’m hanging out in the mountains for a bit.

future

In the future, I want to work part time so I can focus on family, creativity and community. This will probably mean building a business of my own, or contributing signficantly to ventures by others. In the last couple years, I’ve started to make changes towards that goal. This site is one of those changes. So, thanks for your help.