I came to code through a camera.

Wellington-based. I build web and WordPress systems, run digital marketing, and have spent years making documentary photographs. A technical mind that came up through maths, physics, and light.

Who

A practitioner with range rather than a single lane. The technical side is real, a 55k-line product shipped solo, and so is the photography that came first.

I tend to build the same way I shoot: pay attention, work the problem, and let the result speak without overselling it.

Explore

Four ways in

The OpenBrew organiser dashboard interface in dark mode.

Work

Products, platforms, and the long client engagements behind them.
A car doing a smoky burnout at a night meet as a crowd watches.

Photography

Documentary series and the books that started it all.
A polished VW hubcap reflecting a darkroom-like interior — a self-portrait from 1999.

About

Maths and physics, then fine arts, then code.
A black-and-white mountain peak emerging from rolling cloud.

Contact

For work, collaboration, or a print enquiry.
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The OpenBrew organiser dashboard for a 2026 Autumn Valley homebrew competition — setup checklist, entries awaiting check-in, and at-a-glance counts.

Sole author · 2026 · Next.js · TypeScript · Postgres · Prisma · Vitest

OpenBrew

An open-source homebrew-competition platform covering all ten phases of running a competition, multi-tenant from day one, built solo in around three weeks. Roughly 55k lines of strict TypeScript on Next.js, React, and a 24-table Postgres schema, with 470+ unit tests. The two hardest parts of running a real competition get the most attention: a palette-aware auto-assign plus drag-and-drop judging-table engine, and an optional Claude-vision OCR flow that pre-fills scoresheet totals.

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