I grew up around computers, with early memories of Lego Island and Lego Creator: Knights Kingdom.

I studied Psychology at The University of Canterbury, fascinated by how the brain worked and by how people navigate the world.

I was lucky to join Bell Gully as a graduate recruiter; a role heavy on communication, presentation, marketing, stakeholder management - and most of all - enthusiasm.

I moved into graduate recruitment consulting. One consequential evening, assembling Mailchimp emails for a client, I got a dose of my first HTML tag.

Fuelled by excitement and enthusiasm, I tried an online Web Development course.

I continued my role at NxtStep - a consultancy for graduate recruitment with an online job-ads platform - while exploring.

Persuading the business we could offer a new service to clients: for an additional fee I would zhush up their employer profile and job ads, my burgeoning love for Javascript and CSS was finding feet in the real world.

It was time for me to take the next step. I started applying for junior software engineering roles, and knew I was onto a good thing with Actionstep when my phone interviewer riffed on my React puns.

I worked with Actionstep for 3 and a half years, progressing from Junior Frontend Engineer to a Fullstack Product Engineer, working from legacy PHP and archaic Yahoo UI to React, AWS Lambdas, SQS, and Azure DevOps.

Ready for another new adventure, I joined Charter - a startup based in Los Angeles, building a platform for designing satellites, working with NextJS and Supabase.

I adored the opportunity working for a startup provides to live, breath, and own work, but found Charter wasn't quite the right place for me.

Now, I'm looking for my next opportunity.