Experience

Experience & impact.

Building products, shipping client systems and studying the fundamentals — usually at the same time.

01 — Positions & roles

2025 — Present

Founder & Product Lead

budd2buddy

Leading product development, system architecture and platform engineering for a companion networking platform — from problem definition and data modelling through to shipped interface.

Defined the product thesis, core flows and matching logic
Designed the schema, service boundaries and deployment path
Built and iterated the front end against real user feedback

2024 — Present

Freelance Engineer & Systems Developer

Independent

Building custom web platforms, data dashboards and automated workflows for business clients — work that has to survive contact with actual users.

Internal tools replacing spreadsheet-and-chat operations
Reporting pipelines that removed recurring manual work
Client-facing web products shipped end to end

02 — Technical skills

Systems competency

What I reach for, grouped by the kind of problem it solves.

Languages & Frameworks

Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
React
Next.js
Node

Data & Analytics

SQL
Pandas
NumPy
scikit-learn
Matplotlib
Dashboards

Security & Systems

Cryptography
AES-256-GCM
Key management
Auth & access control
Data structures

Tooling & Cloud

Git & GitHub
PostgreSQL
Vercel
CI basics
Figma
VS Code

03 — Education

2022 — 2026

Engineering Physics & Computer Science FoundationsFinal year

Data structures, algorithms, cryptography and core computer science — paired with a habit of building the thing rather than only studying it.

Ongoing

Self-directed engineeringLearning in public

Applied cryptography, analytics workflows, product design and the unglamorous parts of shipping software people actually use.