About Me

I'm currently finishing this, adding little bits in my free time, Heads up, I'm a great engineer, not a great writer. If you end up here and want to see me finish/enjoyed what i currently have, please reach out and let me know! -> more motivation to finish

welcome user, if you’ve made it this far you’re probably trying to work out who i am, what i’m building, and why i care so much about this stuff. let’s get into it.

as a kid i wanted to be an inventor. i was always pulling things apart and trying to make something new. that turned into engineering, then into a uni chapter where i finally had room to build at speed - pushing hard in subjects, spinning up side projects, jumping into the motorsport team, anywhere i could design, test, and ship.

then i discovered software and it was game over. the speed, the iteration, no broken hardware or expensive mistakes - it felt like discovering a performance-enhancing drug for builders. i was hooked.

over the last year i’ve leaned fully into that builder mentality. i’m now a founder and full-stack engineer who’s product obsessed, cares a lot about community, people, and the broader tech/startup scene in australia.

with ml/ai changing what “work” looks like, i think we’re heading toward a world where most people don’t need to work - and the ones who still do will be the builders, the people who genuinely enjoy it. i’m one of those people. i'll still be building till the day i die.

Where I'm at right now

i just graduated, and honestly, graduating threw me off. I dove into university so hard, but it was a temporary scratch of this itch to build, I did really well, made the most out of it, and loved every moment. There's a guy called Matthew Haywood from ActivateUTS (he runs social programs at UTS), when I posted about graduating he made this comment: "you're the first name that comes to mind when I think of a student who made the most of their university experience" and this guy knows a LOT of students. This sums up my uni journey, and also reflects my attitude towards everything in life, I throw myself at everything, give it a crack, and make the most of it. But when I graduated it felt like I slammed on the brakes, and the whiplash left me feeling so confused and anxious. I had made the decision to start a job with a company in the UK. It was a really great opportunity, international travel, a secure grad job, great pay, everything I had been told I should look for after university. But after graduating and in contrast to university, the role felt hollow, it wasn't fun, it wasn't challenging, fast paced or all the things I thought it would be.

when these feelings came up I went into solution mode. I started reading self help books around life design, watching youtubers like Gearside, and figuring out what I wanted to do with my life. One book in particular really stuck with me, Designing Your Life, this is a book I'd recommend you read if you haven't. It's actually based on a course offered at stanford for undergrads, to help them design an "odyssey plan" for the 5 years after they graduate. I realised I hadn't really taken the time to think about my path post university and had always just assumed it would work out because I put in the effort at uni (graduated with HD, got scholarships etc.).

obviously this wasn't the case, and I realised to get myself off the path I was on, I needed a sharp turn. The week this realisation really set in, I resigned, a few months after graduating and a year into the role. Little did I know where this path would take me. The day after my resignation I saw a post on LinkedIn. It was a call out to anyone interested in just building and creating things, the perfect place for me to figure things out.

fast forward, and this sharp turn led to me joining Lecxa as a co-founder and Billabong as a resident.

Where I'm headed

right now i'm all-in on building - o1lab and the wider australian startup community. i care about zero-to-one work, products people actually use, and creating spaces (physical and digital) where other builders can do their best work.

i don't have the next five years mapped out, and i've made peace with that. what i do know is the shape of it: hard problems, good people, and shipping things into the real world. the rest i'll figure out by building.

if any of that resonates - robotics, ai, australian startups, or you just want to make something - reach out.

Reach out if you haven't already!