About me

Where it all began...

My very first computer was a Time PC — a chunky beige box that kicked off a lifelong obsession. I started out building websites with FrontPage, targeting Netscape Navigator. By the time I was 11, I'd even built a website for my school.

I spent most of my school days glued to the computer. I ran forums, launched small web hosting companies, and built communities around the things I loved. Just operating forum software wasn't enough, I wanted to improve it. This led to my first open source contributions. That early collaboration lit a spark that never really went out.

I also did my GCSEs in IT & Maths a year earlier than most. So, yeah — the days of "always being on the computer" worked out alright in the end.

My hosting projects taught me everything from how to wrestle with cPanel and WHM to building a custom client management platform that could auto-provision accounts with FTP & SSH access.

Somewhere along the way, I created and sold GoingOutfit, a site where users could share outfits and earn style badges — basically Instagram before Instagram.

Learn, Do, Share, Repeat

I went on to study Web Development and Management at college, where I built projects like Familybooth — a platform for families to share photos and plan trips. While at university (which I later dropped out of), I freelanced for local businesses and even contracted remotely for a company in Canada, working from my bedroom in the UK before remote work was the norm.

During this time, I picked up PHP and Ruby on Rails, which led to a five-year stretch doing Rails professionally. I later worked with Angular, getting my first taste of building user facing dashboards, which suited me perfectly.

As the ecosystem evolved, so did I. I dove into Node.js, React, and GraphQL, eventually landing a fullstack role at a startup building a headless ecommerce API. Before "DX" was a buzzword, I was already obsessed with it — writing SDKs, building tooling, and documenting everything to make other developers' lives easier.

Developer Experience, Always

Since then, I've stayed focused on the kind of work I love — building tools that developers actually enjoy using. I've worked with a headless commerce API (before headless was a thing), a headless CMS, a GraphQL platform, and eventually joined The Guild, where I contributed to the GraphQL ecosystem and shared learnings through short video tutorials at graphql.wtf.

More recently, I became fascinated by local-first software — apps that work offline, sync seamlessly, and feel lightning fast. That interest led me to Turso, where I work today helping shape the future of embedded databases.

I never stop tinkering! I contribute to the affiliate marketplace generator — 37x, and ENS service provider NameHash Labs. I also built libraries for headless commerce, drop shipping, and cart management. I have attended over 50 developer conferences and meetups along the way — always learning, always shipping, and always finding joy in the craft.

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Outside of the code, there's a whole other side of me. I'm a family guy, a bit of a magician, a gamer dad, and someone who's finally started taking fitness seriously. Here's a little more about the human behind the commits.