Projects

Projects from across my career: delivery, org design, engineering effectiveness, and leadership.

botwatch.game

An interactive live-commentary platform for Premier League games, where Claude-powered bots take on fan personalities from each club's subreddit and banter with real supporters in real time.

Side Projects

Weather Station Claude Project

Using Claude to bring a Raspberry Pi weather station back to life after its original backend went dark, with a Supabase database, a custom Astro dashboard, and feeds to Weather Underground and Windy.

Engineering

AI Integrations Docs Migration & Upgrade

Migrating a stale, Sphinx-based CarTrawler integration docs set onto a modern Astro docs framework using AI agents, and handing ownership back to the squads.

Technical Strategy

Campaign Management Build-vs-Buy

The build-vs-buy call on a campaign management system. We bought, and it held up.

Engineering

Magic Link Authentication

Adding the product's first customer login with magic links instead of a full identity-provider build.

Delivery

Customer Portal Rebuild

Rebuilding a legacy portal, and what it taught me about naming and scoping projects.

Engineering Effectiveness

The Blitz Team

A small senior team with one mandate: fix deployments. Three months, backlog cleared, deploy time cut from hours to about an hour.

Talent Scaling

Ryanair 24-Person Recruitment Drive

Building a hiring process from scratch and filling 24 roles without dropping the bar.

Delivery Under Pressure

Qantas + Virgin Australia Integrations

Two airline integrations in parallel on hard deadlines, and the squad restructure that made it possible.

People & Structure

Engineering Levels Framework

Designing and rolling out a levelling framework to give engineers and managers a clear development path.

Org Design

Full-Stack Squad Transformation

Breaking front-end and back-end silos into full-stack squads. Feature cycle time went from weeks to days.

Leadership & Culture

EMs Connect Peer Group

A peer-learning group for engineering managers that people kept turning up to.

Engineering Efficiency

3D Car Imagery Rebuild

Dynamic car colouring at the CDN level. No extra storage, JavaScript, or network requests.