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id: about-overview
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area: about
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level: 1
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title: "About"
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claim: "Twenty-five years of shipping software — built through self-teaching · a non-IT working life · and five years overseas — now aimed at AI systems · the platforms under them and the devices at the edge."
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confidence: running
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period: "1999–"
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tech: [NixOS, Neovim, Python, JavaScript, React, Go, HTMX]
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metrics: [{label: "years shipping software", value: 25}, {label: "years spent overseas", value: 5}, {label: "non-IT roles worked", value: 6}]
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public: true
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last_verified: 2026-10-26
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tags: [about, narrative, background]
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---
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# About
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**Claim.** A career built by self-teaching — from a childhood in the 1980s with a borrowed language reference, through fifteen years of agency delivery, a working life outside technology, and five years overseas — now concentrated on AI systems, the platforms they run on, and the hardware at the edge.
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**Status.** Current. Melbourne based, and flexible about how the work is done — remote, hybrid, office, or travel.
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**What this page is for.** The other five areas prove what can be built. This one explains where the judgement came from: a non-technical working life, a fine-arts and philosophy education, and a period spent building a business while raising two children.
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**Start here.** [The narrative](about-narrative.md) — including an honest account of 2020 to 2026.
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