About

I'm studying a Master of IT at UNE (current GPA 7/7). Picking up new languages, frameworks, and tools is the part of this job I enjoy most.

The path

Earlier studies in game development and sound production led to a couple of short international tours (Tahiti and New Zealand) as a sound engineer with Te Vaka, the musicians who wrote Disney's Moana film score. After that came media QC and a few months running PowerShell automation for the racing.com broadcast syndication pipeline at Chief Entertainment, then a stint as a disability support worker before founding Care Culture.

I like building things and I like fixing things; the variety is the point. I came into software semi-self-taught. Earlier studies in game development gave me a base in C++ and Python, and running Care Culture gave me a lot of real problems to solve. Most of my code starts as "I can't keep doing this manually" and ends up as a tool the team uses every day.

Outside of client work I run Omarchy (Arch Linux) as my daily driver and a self-hosted server on OpenMediaVault with a handful of Docker services, mostly because I like understanding the full stack from the machine up, and homelabbing is one of the best ways I've found to keep learning.

Stack I actually use

Timeline

• 2024–present Master of IT at UNE (in progress, GPA 7/7)
• 2021–present Director, Care Culture. Built and run the company with my wife
• 2020–2021 Disability support worker
• Through 2019 Media QC and PowerShell-driven broadcast syndication automation (racing.com) at Chief Entertainment
• 2017–2018 Short sound engineering tours with Te Vaka (Moana Film Score composers) in Tahiti and New Zealand
• 2016 Cert IV Sound Production / Diploma of Music Industry
• Earlier Hospitality and casual construction work