I design, build, and ship things across the full hardware–software stack — from embedded firmware and IoT gateways to Django backends and cloud platforms. I tend to lead by doing: turn vague problems into working products, then make them reliable enough to run without me.
- Commercial contactless baby sleep monitor — custom PCB, ESP32-S3 firmware, Django on cloud, and iOS/Android app.
- Aged-care IoT monitoring platform — ~400 embedded Linux hubs with 4G failover, Z-Wave/Zigbee/BLE, and a serverless Django/DRF backend on AWS.
- SIA DC-09 emergency signalling engine — from-scratch Python implementation handling 8,000+ life-safety PERS devices.
- Real-time sports scoreboard systems — commercial LED displays for cricket, AFL, netball, soccer, swimming, and athletics; a cloud-hosted PlayHQ-to-LED cricket board, plus Qt/C++ venue hosts bridged from legacy RS-232 timing hardware over Wi-Fi.
- Credfin — fintech I founded as CTO, later acquired. Reduced loan assessment time from 17 minutes to under 3 minutes, processing 400,000+ applications/month.
- django-easyjwt — remote JWT auth for Django microservices
- easy-hmac — HMAC request signing and webhook verification
- django-easyshard — easy DB sharding for Django applications
I live in Brisbane, Australia. When I'm not writing firmware or debugging cloud deployments, I'm usually on a motorcycle somewhere I can't get to by car.