Building tools
that people rely on

Tech generalist in Perth, Western Australia. I build practical tools that solve real problems, then give them away. Council waste maps, fruit tree stock monitors, mushroom growing guides. The useful kind of side projects.

Location
Perth, WA
Day job
Focus
AI-driven development, AWS, .NET
Interests
Rare fruit, beekeeping, climbing, mycology, travel

Projects

treesmith.app
Launched 2026
iOS and Android

TreeSmith

A fruit tree tracker and garden journal for serious collectors. Log grafts and scion sources, keep photo timelines and care activity, and map every tree by GPS. Free for 30 plants.

vergeside.com.au
Since 2017
200-400 visitors/day

Verge Pickup Tracker

Interactive map of council bulk waste collection dates across Perth. Running for nearly a decade. The kind of tool where people email you when it goes down.

treestock.com.au
Launched 2026
5,900 visitors/month

Fruit Tree Stock Tracker

Scrapes 26 Australian nurseries daily. Tracks 9,500+ listings across 350 species, flags price drops, and emails alerts when a watched variety comes back in stock. Built with Dale, an AI business agent.

scion.exchange
Active
Built for RFCWA

Scion Exchange

A platform for fruit tree enthusiasts to find and share scions for grafting. Built for the Rare Fruit Council of WA, with plans to expand to other clubs.

mushroom.guide
Since 2020
700+ visits/month

The Mushroom Guide

Practical shiitake growing guides. Substrate, inoculation, fruiting, troubleshooting. Written from personal growing experience.

wanatca.org.au
Completed 2024
1975-2007 archive

WANATCA Archive

Scanned, OCRed and rebuilt the website for the West Australian Nut & Tree Crop Association. 32 years of Quandong Magazine, 27 yearbooks, and conference papers preserved for the public.

beefriends.shop
Active
Perth / Bremer Bay

Bee Friends Honey

Small-batch honey from hives in Shenton Park and Bremer Bay. Limited seasonal harvests, sold a few times a year. Every kilo sold plants roughly four trees through Trillion Trees.

Work

Highlights from the day job at eBooks.com, where the work is infrastructure, search, and making a global bookstore run smoothly.

Writing

Latest

"I ship things I don't understand. So can you."

A few years ago, picking up a self-hosted project a year later was a special kind of pain. With LLMs, I don't need to remember how it works, I need to know what working looks like.

May 2026