I work from unclear goal to running service: framing the problem, choosing the architecture, building the thing, and keeping it understandable for the team that owns it next.
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A lot of the interesting work happens between disciplines: careers, mobile services, sustainability, physics, public science, research visibility, and AI that has to be useful after the demo.
Domains: Applied AI
Careers AI assistant
A Lancaster University careers pilot for independent employability practice: CV and cover letter review, interview modes, feedback reports, and LinkedIn recommendations.
Applying AI in a university service context, balancing usefulness, trust, safety, evaluation, privacy, and operational cost.
LUCA: LinkedIn write-upDomains: Mobile
Mobile platform
A daily companion for campus life, evolved through co-production and data: Expo migration, performance work, check-in improvements, digital passes, safety tooling, and support visibility.
Maintaining and evolving a high-visibility student platform where reliability, accessibility, release confidence, and institutional service ownership matter as much as feature delivery.
iLancaster: LinkedIn write-upDomains: Research · Applied AI
Research interface
A map interface for iceberg detection research, turning satellite radar and AI outputs into accessible location data for potential maritime use.
Translating specialist research outputs into a usable interface where uncertainty, map interaction, and public-facing interpretation need careful handling.
IceHunter front-end: LinkedIn write-upDomains: Research
Research tool
A web tool helping eCommerce businesses make data-driven packaging decisions that balance cost, compliance, and environmental impact.
Turning research and compliance complexity into decision support that helps businesses compare trade-offs instead of drowning in inputs.
Sustainable packaging tool: LinkedIn write-upDomains: Research
Public science platform
A modernisation project for a public-facing aurora platform built around real-time and historical data, alerts, and wider access to science.
Modernising a public science service around access, data clarity, reliability, and a wider audience than the people already fluent in the domain.
AuroraWatch UK refresh: LinkedIn write-upDomains: Research · Cloud
Research web platform
A public site for an EPSRC-funded AI research hub, built with Next.js, Mantine UI, AWS, university content integrations, and a lightweight admin workflow.
Making collaboration, content ownership, AWS hosting, and long-term maintenance practical for a distributed programme.
Prob_AI research hub: LinkedIn write-upLexio is where I ship focused software: small apps, AI workflows, developer tools, and prototypes that prove or disprove an idea in the open.
A home for subscription apps and bespoke builds for developers, creators, internal tools, prototypes, and integrations.
Keeping small builds tied to a real user job, a testable assumption, and enough restraint that the experiment can actually ship.
A sandbox for tabletop GMs to practise with AI adventurers: party generation, character voice, dice, initiative, secrets, and session flow.
Focused on rehearsal and feedback for live facilitation, not another content generator wearing a wizard hat.
An AI-powered job board that parses a CV, learns preferences, searches for relevant roles, and improves from user feedback.
Testing whether matching, explanations, and feedback loops can make job search less like feeding a CV into a paper shredder.
An open-source npm registry gateway and Node devcontainer base image for safer dependency installs, built from a spec with Codex doing the long-haul implementation work.
Anvil sits between package managers and upstream registries, applies deterministic policy, queues analysis, and gives reviewers enough evidence to understand why a dependency was allowed, blocked, quarantined, or overridden.
A TypeScript npm registry gateway that evaluates package metadata, tarballs, provenance, low-adoption signals, lifecycle scripts, and overrides before install traffic reaches developers or CI.
A companion Node devcontainer image for unknown repositories, with ignore-scripts safe mode, observed install mode, lifecycle reports, and explicit handling for install-time behaviour.
Optional LLM review adds structured risk context, but deterministic policy stays the enforcement authority. Decorative security can stay outside where it belongs.
I like the bit where vague goals have to become usable systems, sensible architecture, and delivery plans that a real team can survive without forming a support group.
Strong technical work is rarely just code. It is judgement, collaboration, trade-offs, communication, and enough taste to know when an abstraction has wandered into self-importance.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional gives me a structured way to reason about reliability, security, cost, scalability, migration, and operational support.
Short-form thinking on software, engineering judgement, AI, delivery, and whatever technical decision currently deserves a raised eyebrow.
This site is a working notebook for software, platforms, ideas, and the occasional technical opinion with its sleeves rolled up.
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