Designer first, developer by choice.

I started as a graphic designer in 2013 and moved into development because I wanted to build the thing, not just draw it. That order still shows: I can take a project from brand and layout through to database schema and deployment without handing it over.

My first developer role was three and a half years at Idealweb, on Recruit 360 — the recruitment platform written up in the work section. It’s where I learned to build software: integrations against systems I didn’t control, a data model that had to keep one person’s identity straight across many companies, and non-technical users on the other end of every decision.

For the last six years I’ve run Digital Stream, the agency I co-founded in Centurion, as director and the developer on every project — Laravel applications, custom WordPress builds, and more recently Next.js and headless work, all hosted on infrastructure I administer myself.

I’m now looking for a developer role — Laravel or WordPress — where I can go deeper on the engineering instead of spreading thin across thirty client sites and the business around them.