I danced from the age of six and retired at twenty-eight, seven of those years professionally with the Royal New Zealand Ballet. In the performing arts you're cast in a role, given a fixed number of rehearsals, and the curtain goes up on the date printed on the tickets. You chase perfection but never wait for it: you give your best on the night, then walk back into the studio the next morning and raise the bar. I build software the same way.
I started writing code in 2017, alongside a Bachelor of Information Technology at QUT specialising in Business Analysis and IT Management. I completed two of the three years and left it there: demand for my work had already overtaken the coursework. As a mature age student, what the industry wanted was someone with the life experience to start early and put it to use, rather than retraining after university, and with the appetite to keep learning. What stuck is turning business requirements into technical ones, and a preference for bringing stakeholders along in plain language, so what gets built is what the client actually wants and needs.
Australian born, now a resident in Argentina. I've led teams at Axis Human and datakimia, and built product for Console Group, Little Hinges and The Fleet Office. I've been shipping Next.js since 2019, when it was the new framework on the block and Vercel was nowhere near mainstream yet.
Outside work
Outside of work I go on epic camping adventures, hike, sit by an open fire, and have a temperamental interest in learning the fine art of cartography.