I’m a seasoned product designer & full-stack web developer, a pragmatic systems thinker, and an empathetic coach, manager, and mentor. I’m a detail-oriented ENFP, and I bias towards chaotic neutral. 👻
//about
I’ve been Building Things™ for the Internet
for nearly 20 years—since the days of spacer GIFs,
<blink> tags, GeoCities🏠🚧, Macromedia
Flash, and IE4🌐😬—and have been part of high-impact teams solving
fascinating problems at
GitHub,
Intercom,
Seth Godin’s
altMBA,
Quilter.ai, and
elsewhere.
- Most recently I’ve been helping shape the vision for product design at Quilter.ai. We’re building the future of PCB layout and design automation tooling using physics-based AI.
- Having helped design and build many parts of GitHub, and as the first hire for Intercom’s London office, I’m fortunate to have had experience shaping design, leading execution, and shipping code for core features of high-visibility products and high-traffic workflows, as well as growing and guiding teams to do the same.
- As a coach for Seth Godin’s altMBA program—a four-week online intensive leadership workshop—I co-led multiple EMEA cohorts, and have coached, mentored, and worked closely with a wide range of changemakers—from founders/CEOs and business leaders to teachers, artists, writers, marketers, therapists and more.
- In addition to speaking at a variety of conferences, startups, and universities, I’ve occasionally also been known to provide coaching, strategic consulting, and specialist advisory to a range of individuals and organisations on a freelance basis.
Outside of work, I’m a keen photographer, aspiring linguist, multi-media maker, cypherpunk historian/cryptography geek (majored in network security at university), a very rusty dancer/martial-artist/mountain-biker, proud uncle, and garden-variety autodidactic generalist. There’s a lot more to me than that, but that's a good place to start.
I’m originally from New Zealand, but in various past lives I’ve also lived in Australia, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and London, UK—in addition to having travelled to ~27 countries—so I’ve wound up with a funky accent you’ll probably struggle to place.