How I Got Here

My parents had a plan for me.

It involved healthcare, vocational school, and a sensible chance of getting a job.

It did not involve me spending half my life in front of a computer.

Back in junior high, they wanted me to take the safer route. I understood why. From their point of view, it mostly looked like I was playing games. “Software engineer” wasn’t exactly an obvious career path.

Then I joined a national competition, spent a few very late nights with my laptop, and somehow won.

That helped my case.

A lot.

My parents started seeing the computer a little differently. They agreed to let me study Computer Science at university.

And apparently, that was the beginning of a much longer relationship with computers.

Since then, I’ve built software for schools, worked with product teams, and eventually started my own SaaS company. Years of actually building things gave me a solid engineering foundation — long before AI could write code for me.

Now AI is part of how I work, too.

It helps me move faster and build more. But figuring out the problem, questioning the solution, and taking responsibility for what ships?

That part is still on me.

Early projects

Some of my earlier work was for schools and health centres. I built software for taking attendance, handling school payments, and keeping patient queues moving. There was hardware involved, too: a Raspberry Pi, a face-recognition system, and an ID-card scanner.

The door-access experiment is another part of that hardware chapter. You can watch the little model in action.

A product of my own

Running an internet service means looking after the people paying for it as well as the network connecting them. That’s the world Eyzet belongs to.

I’m Eyzet’s founder and a full-stack developer on the product. My work includes maintaining the software and helping its users when something needs attention. Today, it brings billing and network operations together, with an internal AI agent to help the team find customer and device information.

Other teams, other worlds

At Resync Digital, now Atas.AI, I’ve worked on products with very different jobs. Diversiview helps investors examine a portfolio. For Smetric, I built a standalone application around the data collection and reporting work previously presented in shared Power BI dashboards.

There’s an e-commerce chapter, too: AMP, including its Australia Post Shipping app. With the shipping app, the work follows an order from the shop’s checkout to a labelled parcel and a tracking update.

What’s on my desk now

Alongside Eyzet, I’m currently working on SortMe through Atas.AI. I lead the engineering team, with responsibility for code, automation, and continuous integration. The product helps households in New Zealand see their accounts, spending, and upcoming bills together.