Software engineer & business owner · United Kingdom
I build solutions that hold up in the real world.
Full-stack software engineer with a decade in PHP, TypeScript, React and AWS — contracting since 2016 and happiest when the work makes a visible difference.
- professional experience
- 10+ yrs
- contracting since
- 2016
- CodinGame ranking
- Top 0.6%
01 · work
Things I build — for love, and for a living.
Two companies I own and run, alongside the hardware, games and tools I build for the love of it.
Companies
- Company
Lexiphanic Limited
The web agency behind these sites — bespoke websites and online growth for businesses across the UK.
- Web agency
- Bespoke websites
- E-commerce
- Company
Redhead Homes Limited
A property company buying and selling residential real estate in the UK.
- Property
- Residential
- Real estate
Projects & experiments
- 01Featured
TypeStar
A rhythm touch-typing game — a bit Guitar Hero, a bit keyboard speed game. YouTube supplies the music and visuals, and you type the lyrics as the words arrive.
- Astro
- React
- Cloudflare
- Game
- 02
Borings, Baddies & Bastards
A free, pass-the-phone social deduction party game for 3–20 players — one phone, one secret word and three ways to lie. The word itself is generated by an AI, server-side, so the key never reaches the browser.
- Astro
- React
- Cloudflare
- 03
MeChessBook
Pulls a Lichess game history and lays it out as a printable chess book — print it at home or send it to a printer for a proper bound copy.
- TypeScript
- Lichess API
- 04
Poem Camera
An experiment in giving a thermal printer a voice: an AI writes the poem, the hardware makes it physical.
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- AI
- Hardware
- 05
Git Popular
A small Rust CLI that makes a repository's commit history look… well-populated. Strictly for vanity.
- Rust
- CLI
- 06Archived
Pool Rule
A random pool-rule generator for the pub table — because every good house rule needs a referee.
- PHP
- Web app