Software engineer
I care about what happens when technology meets real life.
I am a software engineer whose work spans energy, finance, consumer technology, and AI. I focus on systems people can rely on, decisions they can understand, and tools that keep people in control.
My career has taken me from smart metering and agency banking to leading engineering at ThankYu. I have worked across architecture, backend, web, mobile, and the less visible work of getting software safely into people's hands. I also contribute to open source developer tools, sharing work that others can use and build on.
My recent work includes AI agents and security: setting permissions, defining approval boundaries, and making actions auditable. I write about AI systems and the wider practice of engineering at Edgecase Engineering, and speak about what I learn from building and operating them.
My work began with energy systems, moved into payments, and expanded into developer infrastructure and engineering leadership.
At Edgecase Engineering, I write about architecture, AI systems, APIs, and what happens after software reaches production. My talks draw on the same engineering decisions and tradeoffs.
An upcoming talk about scoped agent permissions and revocation.
A 10-minute talk on what teams delegate to AI, who remains accountable, and where approval and verification belong before work ships.
An upcoming 20-minute talk about approval boundaries for AI-assisted work.
At the Design Meets Tech seminar day hosted by Hull Frontend (25 May 2024), I spoke about decoupled frontend architecture, modular delivery, and the tradeoffs between team structure and technical boundaries.
Hull Frontend meetup sitePlanning an engineering event? Email me with the audience, format and proposed date.
Invite me to speakIf you're building a payment or product platform, shaping an engineering team, or planning a technical talk, I'd be glad to hear what you're working on.
A short note with the problem, context, and timing is plenty.