Most people call me Happy — it's stuck since long before the software did.

I came to software from electrical and electronics engineering. A discipline that teaches you to think in systems, constraints, and tolerances. The translation to software was more natural than I expected — same instincts, different medium. I shipped my first production code in early 2022 and haven't stopped since.

My first role was at Applikation Ltd, a UK product studio. I joined as a contributor and spent the first months building across their product portfolio — a carbon-auditing SaaS, a co-parenting app, a local discovery platform for Jersey. Within four months I had been promoted to lead engineer, responsible for the architecture of their newer products.

The work I'm most proud of is Prova Risk — a Martyn's Law compliance platform for the UK security sector. I lead the engineering: a production annotations editor, a multi-LLM scenario builder, and a custom MCP server orchestrating seven models. We're currently serving 150 premises ahead of public launch. The MCP orchestration work has become a particular interest — the kind of problem where the architecture decisions have real consequences.

Before the software: a published paper in IJAREEIE on renewable energy systems, from my EEE period. And a Vercel React Foundations certificate — though I'd argue the real credential is the 600,000 pages audited through Bioscore's Shopify extension.

I care about systems that hold their shape under load, and about the kind of restraint that lets a product earn trust quickly. Build the simplest thing that works. Then defend it.

Off-hours:telescope on the terrace, watching whatever's overhead. The sky is the oldest debugger.