I build and scale platforms that go the distance.
From architecting Intelligent Reach to ~600M users tracked and a 2024 exit, to fractional-CTO work on Connect51 and Space To Feel — I turn ambitious products into resilient, scalable engineering, now amplified with AI-augmented delivery.
A technologist who ships.
I'm a hands-on technology leader who has spent two decades building software and the teams that ship it — across New Zealand, Australia and the UK, now based in Auckland.
As CTO and co-founder of Intelligent Reach I architected a highly resilient, auto-scaling platform across Azure and AWS, established a rigorous CI/CD culture with full automated test coverage, and grew the company to nearly 100 people before a successful exit. Today I work as a fractional CTO with Nimble Hive, building Connect51 and Space To Feel, and pushing the frontier of AI-augmented engineering.
A few fun facts
- Represented New Zealand in IT at the World Skills Competition
- Visited 72 countries — once drove a Contiki tour bus across Europe
- Skied 17 ski fields
- Built a home that won Home of the Year
- Bright Spark NZ winner
Projects
What I'm building now, and what I've built before.
Connect51 ↗
A research-intelligence platform connecting university researchers and accelerating cross-institutional collaboration. Analyses tens of millions of scholarly works to surface partnerships, benchmark performance and strengthen research impact.
Space To Feel
A mental-health platform helping people manage and work through mental-health challenges, delivered cross-platform on mobile.
Intelligent Reach ↗
Connected merchants' products to hundreds of global sales channels — Amazon, Google, eBay, TradeMe — with near real-time pricing and marketing-spend decisions. Architected the platform from the ground up, scaled engineering to 35, founded the profitable APAC office, and exited in 2024.
AI-Augmented Delivery
Running modern agentic development workflows — orchestrating multi-agent engineering pipelines with Claude Code and the Superpowers agent manager to dramatically compress solo-developer delivery timelines on production-grade SaaS.
Experience
Two decades from software engineer to CTO and founder.
Education
Skills
The capabilities I bring to a build.
Leadership
Cloud & Infrastructure
Languages & Frameworks
AI & Engineering
Let's build something.
Open to fractional-CTO, advisory and the occasional interesting build. The fastest way to reach me is email.