Canada
Welcome
Thanks for stopping by. I’m a software developer with over fifteen years of experience, working at the point where engineering meets public policy. Most of my career has been spent building analytics, video processing, and security software.
More recently I’ve turned to the policy questions that surround the technology I build, around privacy, data governance, and how these systems get regulated. I care about software that is well built, respects the people who use it, and takes the wider policy landscape seriously.
Have a look around. My software projects, public policy writing, and work history are all below, and you can reach me any time through the links here.
Privacy and analytics tools and civic software, with source on GitHub.
Essays and applied work where technology, privacy, and governance meet.
Fifteen years in industry, most of it building security and analytics software.
About Me
I was born in the mid-1980s and grew up during the peak era of accessible programming on personal computers, when switching a machine on dropped you straight into a BASIC prompt. Being born in the UK, my first language was BBC BASIC, which I started writing at eight years old on the Acorn Archimedes.
When the World Wide Web arrived I moved into HTML and CSS, and later PHP. I built increasingly complex PHP websites for various passion projects, and that hands-on experimentation became the foundation of everything that followed.
I put programming on pause to study Music Composition at university in London. After graduating I returned to it properly, turning years of self-taught experience into a career in software development.
Over the next fifteen years that career centred on security software, building analytics dashboards, customizable charting tools, camera metadata and detection analytics, access control systems, and Docker-based cloud video infrastructure. You can see some of this in my software projects and work history.
Following the Covid pandemic I found myself drawn to the policy and decision making around technology and governance. The work I was doing sat at the overlap of analytics, privacy, and regulation, and it raised questions I could not stop thinking about, about how detection and video data should be handled, what privacy protections need to be designed in from the start, and how regulation shapes what these products can and cannot do. Those questions led me to complete a Master of Arts in Public Policy, with training in statistics, program evaluation, public finance, economics, governance, and law.
Around the same time I founded the Langley Urbanist Society, a small non-profit I run voluntarily in my spare time, applying the same analytical and engineering skills to questions of land use, housing, and municipal finance.
Today I work where engineering and policy intersect, and I care about building software that takes the user experience, privacy, and the wider policy landscape seriously. You can read more on my public policy page.