Technology leadership, engineering teams, and whatever I'm building this week.
Head of Engineering at a scale-up in Australia. I spend my days on engineering roadmaps, architecture and ways of working — and my evenings building small things with AI to find out what it’s actually good at.
Built with AI
Small tools, one-pagers and half-finished ideas I build with AI in the gaps between other things. Shipped over polished; the point is to learn where these tools help and where they fall over.
A go/no-go call for a beginner surfer on the Surf Coast. It scores the next week across Point Roadknight, Anglesea, Cosy Corner and Torquay Surf Beach, then picks the actual time windows worth paddling out in.
A designed one-pager on emotional non-reactivity, drafted with AI and reviewed line by line. An experiment in using AI for the first draft of something I actually wanted to keep.
Builder look books hand you a lighting "allowance" with no way to tell what anything actually costs. This pulls six of them apart into 368 unique SKUs, matches each one against Beacon Lighting's live catalogue, and puts the two prices side by side — with the original page scans to check it against.
Notes & talks
Reference post: drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by Dean.
Resetting my communication ways of working in 2023
A place for engineers to connect and share learnings
GitHub Pages, AWS and blogging with Jekyll
My first podcast experience