Platform engineer & solutions architect
I design secure, repeatable cloud platforms, model their economics, and ship the products that run on them.
DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND
I’m a self-taught engineer with over twenty years across commerce, resource planning, and healthcare. These days that means platform work on Azure and AWS, and a product studio I run solo: full stack in the literal sense, infrastructure to UI. AI-native engineering has changed the way I think about development. I concentrate on the system and the guardrails rather than purely on the code.
An open-source LLM gateway built on a disagreement with the ecosystem: most gateways flatten every provider into one chat-completions shape. Loom manages conversations agent-style at the core and gives each provider an adapter that owns its own wire format, so quirks stay at the edges and the abstraction stays honest.
An opinionated approach to solution architecture, and to how products get delivered. Decisions and C4 diagrams live as plain files in the repo, no database, reviewed in pull requests like everything else. It’s also my daily working environment: the demos are real reference architectures, starting with platform economics (a container-hosting decision and the cost model behind it).
Point-of-sale for community venues: Rust and Tauri on Raspberry Pi kiosks with integrated EFTPOS, live with a paying customer. Built as a social enterprise. I take no revenue from it.
An event-sourced world simulation engine where nothing is scripted. The world advances through replayable events, AI drives its inhabitants, and a Unity client renders whatever emerges.
Started as a birthday present for my son. Got out of hand.
A generative music engine headed for the browser. Strings are physically modelled, drums are synthesized from primitives, nothing is sampled. It plays endlessly and never repeats itself.
Currently: preparing AZ-104 and AZ-305, open-sourcing the Fieldstate portfolio, and writing up each project. Open to principal platform, solutions architecture, and development manager roles, in Dunedin or remote.