Software engineer
& occasional writer.

I studied American history and then psychology at the University of Nottingham, which is a perfectly normal pipeline into software engineering if you don't think about it too hard. After a bootcamp in New Orleans, I joined Revelry as an apprentice in 2021 and have been there ever since, building everything from AI platforms with RAG pipelines to cryptocurrency accountancy tools to the occasional game in LiveView.

These days I spend most of my time in Elixir and Phoenix, though I've been known to try my hand at TypeScript, Python, and whatever else the project demands. I'm a peer coach, and have mentored apprentices through Revelry's program, so I guess the psychology study wasn't entirely wasted (I'm still waiting on the history though). I've spoken at TECNext and GigCityElixir about building AI applications in Elixir.

I write regularly on Revelry's blog about AI, security, Elixir, and whatever else I'm thinking about. I use AI extensively in my programming, but I try to keep it out of my writing. Writing is the best tool I have for stress-testing my own understanding, and running my thoughts through an LLM would rather defeat the point..!