A web engineer with a passion for distributed & local-first tech.

Work history

I started out in 2011 as a full-stack web dev at a company called Mr. Henry where I implemented various unique and special web designs, ranging from eccentric artistic websites to generating typefaces in a HTML canvas. They had a custom CMS behind these websites written in Ruby, which is one of the first programming languages that I loved. I will forever treasure Why's Poignant Guide.

Several years later I ended up working remotely full-time for MetaLab, a product design and development studio based in Canada. There I started working mostly on web applications, learning a lot about user interfaces and user experience design. During this time I also learned a bunch of new programming languages and got introduced to functional programming.

During all this time I worked on a side project which would eventually get me into Fission, my third job, where I worked with new protocols to help establish a local-first & distributed/decentralised web with more user agency. This was my introduction to cryptography, software security and various low-level protocols that make up the web.

Sadly Fission ran out of funding. Since then I've been working freelance on various projects in the same scene, helping the web and software become more distributed and better for the people.