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I’ve always been curious about how things work, and even more curious about what I could make with that knowledge. That curiosity has taken me through engineering, design, branding, writing, and plenty of things in between.

I don’t really see those as separate disciplines. They’re different ways of understanding a problem and bringing an idea to life. I might write to make sense of an idea, design to give it shape, or build software to make it real. I enjoy moving between those perspectives and finding where they meet.

That’s shaped the way I work today: exploring widely, learning constantly, and building things that are useful to someone beyond myself. Some become products, some become open-source tools, some become brands, and some simply teach me something I didn't know before.

How I think

A lot of my work starts with figuring out what the problem actually is before trying to solve it. Sometimes that means understanding what people are really disagreeing about. Sometimes it means asking what a brand is really trying to say before drawing another logo. Sometimes it means sitting with a technical problem long enough to find a simpler way through it.

One example came in my final weeks of school, as Head Boy. My class was splitting over something small, a formal dinner versus a student-led afterparty, and it was heading towards becoming an actual argument. Rather than pushing for one side, I ran it as a structured WhatsApp vote instead: laid out the real trade-offs, kept it neutral, and let people decide without anyone feeling steamrolled. The outcome mattered less than finding a way through it without the small thing becoming a bigger one.

Different problems, same habit: understand the shape of the problem before committing to an answer.

Experience

Independent / Freelance

2024 – Present

Paid web development and brand identity work, with product design and UI/UX increasingly part of what I take on. Mostly taking an idea from concept through design, build, and shipping. Still early, but real work for real people.

Anthena (formerly Coodeck)

Jun 2025 – Nov 2025

Frontend Engineering Intern

Coodeck, now Anthena, is an AI-powered platform that connects businesses with talent, bringing hiring, collaboration, and project execution into one workspace. I worked on the frontend through its beta with React, Next.js, and Chakra UI, building dashboards, profile screens, and escrow flows, turning backend data into real interfaces, and improving responsiveness, navigation, and the mobile experience. I proposed and shipped UI improvements too, working with the team through regular development meetings.

Kids Code Club Africa

Aug 2024 & Aug 2025

Web Development Instructor

Taught web development to young students across the August cohorts in 2024 and 2025, passing on the fundamentals I'd first taught myself. Explaining an idea to a beginner is its own kind of clarifying.

Milestones

2026

  • Graduated from Peakfield Academy as Valedictorian and Head Boy.
  • Built and shipped products including thanksbut.lol, Stash, and glance.
  • Reached the Top 32 of the Zero Cup from 218 projects across 10 countries with Stash.
  • Built and submitted an open-source Token Extensions Skill for a Superteam bounty.
  • Continued building and contributing to open source.

2025

  • Served as Assistant Head Boy at Peakfield Academy.
  • Participated in school competitions while continuing to build and learn independently.
  • Continued developing personal projects and exploring software, design, and writing.

2024

  • Continued developing as a self-taught developer while building projects beyond the classroom.
  • Became increasingly involved in technology, school leadership, and creative work.

2023

  • Won the Axia Tech Challenge for the second consecutive year.
  • Continued developing software independently and expanding beyond tutorials into projects of my own.

2022

  • Won the Axia Tech Challenge.
  • Continued developing my programming skills through independent study and personal projects.

2021

  • Continued learning software development independently through Team Treehouse and YouTube.
  • Spent a lot of time learning from creators such as Traversy Media and building on what I had started the year before.

2020

  • Started learning to code independently through Google's Grasshopper app.