CTO and Co-founder

Co-founder/CTO taking products 0→1: hands-on, AI-native builder. Ship fast and set foundations teams can scale on.
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Status
Actively looking
Not looking
Not looking
Open to new opportunities
Location
Sydney
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Open to relocating
Commitment
Casual / Contract / Part-time
Availability from time of offer
In 1 month or less
Years of experience
7+ years
Top 3 languages or frameworks
TypeScript, Python, Ruby
Also knows
React Native, Vercel, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Vitest, Cloudflare, Figma
Preferred work environment
Hybrid
Strengths
Founder, creative technologist, agentic programmer, coach. Building intelligence systems at the intersection of data, culture, and product.

I get technical. I get creative. I get people.
Interested in working involving
A co-founder / CTO role at an early-stage company, where I own the technology end to end and help shape the product and the business. I'm at my best in the 0→1 phase: turning a rough idea into something real, choosing a pragmatic stack, shipping fast, and staying hands-on in the code. Everything is built with a team-handover in mind: specs, documentation, test harnesses, and DevOps.

I develop AI-native. I use AI agents as a core part of how I design, build and deploy products, and I can take that into a team as a working practice, not just a talking point.
Not interested in work involving

Other information
Able to work in Australia without visa sponsorship
Requires visa sponsorship to work in Australia

Pay expectations

Full-time
$
200000
per year
Casual / Contract
$
150
per hour
Pay is negotiable in exchange for equity
Pay is negotiable in exchange for equity
Pay is not negotiable in exchange for equity
Open to equity only roles
Not open to equity only roles

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Work experience

Proudest professional achievement
What I'm proud of is building two real products from zero in 2026, alongside client consulting work. SailCode (co-founder, CTO): a sailing platform that replaces the spreadsheet-and-stopwatch routine most club racers still use. Since May, across nearly 1,000 commits, I've built: - a mobile app that records GPS tracks in the background and logs rig settings - a live race map and coaching tools - a data service, plus stats and an AI assistant Currently at the GTM phase. RollMap (co-founder, CTO): a visual game-planning app for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a sort of Figma for grappling. Since April I've built the whole platform: - an infinite canvas where athletes map positions and the transitions between them - a library of over 500 techniques and 20 starter maps - a Claude-powered coaching assistant that can suggest and edit a user's map directly - Stripe subscriptions, plus a landing site where people can play with real maps before joining the waitlist Currently in stealth. I own the architecture, security and roadmap, and work alongside my commercial co-founders.
I've spent the last 25 years building at the intersection of technology and creativity — from writing code to running a 70-person agency. These days my focus is applied AI: not just integrating LLMs, but building the infrastructure, data pipelines, and product logic that makes AI actually useful in production. I work across the full stack — model selection, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, AI orchestration, and the front-end systems that make it legible to users.

Right now I'm building SailCode, a sailing app that turns the GPS track from a phone in a lifejacket into a whole-squad debrief for junior racers, and RollMap, the BJJ coaching platform I co-founded. I also built the 2.0 platform behind Happy Hour Club, Sydney's members club for going out, and I keep shipping smaller things like StackOverlord, Figma MCP Loop and Focal Point. Creative technology is the thread that runs through all of it — the belief that the most interesting work happens when engineering rigour meets cultural intelligence.

In 2026 I received a US$30,000 grant in Claude credits from a leading AI research company.

Education

Newington College School Certificate
Certificate of Commercial Cookery
Startmate Mentor
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