Software engineer in Melbourne. When I run into a real-world problem, or a company brings me one, I build the software that solves it.

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• Kenspire Advisors, contract. A multi-tenant platform that turns clients' goals and procedures into scheduled work, on TanStack Start, Expo and Convex. Planned rollout to 500 organisations.
• Besmak Components, contract. A web and mobile task platform for about 600 staff, with Convex self-hosted on AWS and provisioned with OpenTofu.
• Complete Leader, casual. Psychometric assessments, scoring and AI-generated reports in Next.js and Supabase.

• Foodly: honours project. Instagram and TikTok food reels become saved places on a personal map.
• Switchyard: an open-source Rust gateway that puts every coding agent and account behind one local endpoint.
• ParkAlong: is there parking, how long can I stay, and what will it cost, on one map for Victoria.
• ServoGrid: a native iOS fuel map that tells you when a price might be stale.
• Do coding agents cooperate?: a pilot study of coding agents in the repeated prisoner's dilemma.

• Codex Shared Memory: a self-hosted MCP server that shares agent memory across machines.
• pptx-react-renderer: an npm package that renders PowerPoint files as HTML.

This repository is the source for the portfolio site.

The website source code is available under the MIT License. The résumé, personal portfolio copy, and project screenshots in public/ are not licensed for reuse under MIT.

Use Node 24 and npm ci, then npm run dev. npm run verify:agent checks the assistant's wiring, including a real code-mode run. Pull requests and pushes to main run the build and those checks in GitHub Actions.

The site is a notebook on a desk (components/notebook/). React renders the pages once; engine.ts turns them: CSS 3D leaves, riffling to a section, drag to turn, swipe on phones (one tall page at a time), and arrow keys. Every page, role and project has a data-target id, listed in lib/portfolioIds.ts.

The assistant (components/agent/) is an index card on the desk. On wide screens it docks beside the book, which slides over to make room; on phones it opens as a sheet and tucks away when it turns a page. Answers move the notebook: turn_to turns to a page and rings its title in pen, mark_work ticks every contents entry that uses a technology, and tour, focus, set_theme and reset_view do what they say. Every change shows in a note with Undo. Typing / opens shortcuts such as /parkalong and /find swift, built on the same tool registry WebMCP exposes to external agents.

On the server (lib/portfolioChat.ts) the model gets two tools up front: code, which runs AI SDK code mode, and the direct page tools. Lookups run inside code mode, so the model writes a short program, calls several lookups at once and keeps only what it needs. Only the core lookups (listWork, lookupRole, lookupProject, findWorkByTech) load at the start; skills, profile and the GitHub tools load through toolSearch when a question needs them. GitHub lookups cover public, non-fork, non-archived repositories in RealSid08 and OpenRenderKit only, and are read-only.

Cloudflare Workers serves the Vite build and the /api/transcribe and /api/github routes. Pushing to main triggers Cloudflare Builds (npm run build, then npx wrangler deploy).

Other branches automatically get Workers Builds preview uploads with preview URLs (npm run build, then npx wrangler preview).

The chat assistant runs on Vercel instead (project realsid08, https://realsid08.vercel.app), because code mode needs Node worker threads, which Workers do not have. The Worker forwards /api/chat to AGENT_ORIGIN in wrangler.jsonc. Deploy the assistant with vercel deploy --prod; its OPENAI_API_KEY is set on the Vercel project. Branch previews use the next assistant instead: deploy it with vercel deploy --prod --skip-domain, then vercel alias set <deployment-url> realsid08-next.vercel.app. Previews reach it through Vercel's protection bypass, stored as the AGENT_BYPASS secret on the Worker's Preview base config.

Set OPENAI_API_KEY (for dictation) and GITHUB_TOKEN as Worker secrets with npx wrangler secret put <NAME>. Use a classic GitHub token with no scopes, which only raises the public rate limit.