Freelance AI engineer & full-stack developer
I spent seven years building software for companies in Auckland, about as far from France as you can get without leaving the planet. Now I'm back in France, in Angoulême, working for myself. So instead of a timeline, here's a tunnel.
Angoulême
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Sediment, 0–12 km
Bordeaux and Charente. A soldering iron, a drone, and the first Symfony apps.
2015
C++ & Arduino developer, France
Built a 3-axis gimbal controller for a drone: a custom PCB, an encrypted wireless link, a C++ control interface and OpenCV object tracking on live video.
2016
Project lead, Symfony, France
Led a team of two developers building an internal skills-management site in Symfony, run in Scrum with Jira and Trello.
2016–2018
Master's degree, Bordeaux, France
Two years of study, with production Symfony code shipping on the side the whole time.
Skills are buried in every layer. Click one to mine it.
Continental crust, 12–35 km
2015–2018
Symfony developer, France
A rugby statistics dashboard: live match data, visualisations and the data model behind them.
2016–2018
Symfony developer, Bordeaux, France
A parking platform built from scratch: Symfony APIs, admin and customer apps, an Ionic mobile app, and Stripe, Twilio, Mailjet and Slack integrations. Page loads dropped by 60%.
2017–2023
Founder, side project, Charente, France
Software for running a vineyard and a distillery. Built it, then maintained it for six years.
2018–2019
Symfony developer, Bordeaux, France
A holiday booking platform in the Booking.com mould, on Symfony API Platform, React and Firebase.
Upper mantle, 35–660 km
Angoulême to Auckland is roughly 19,000 km by plane. Through the middle it's 12,742.
2019–2021
Software engineer, Auckland, New Zealand
DJ software used worldwide. Ran the API services behind it (Braintree, Zendesk, ActiveCampaign, Slack), the AWS infrastructure, and moved a legacy Magento store onto a REST API.
2020–2021
Senior engineer, freelance, Auckland, New Zealand
Vue.js apps with payments and admin tooling, REST APIs on Strapi, and Stripe, Zendesk and S3 integrations.
Lower mantle, 660–2,890 km
2021–2023
Senior software engineer, Auckland, New Zealand
Front end of digital fitness platforms used around the world (React, Gatsby, TypeScript), a serverless back end on AWS Lambda, and subscriptions through Google Play, Amazon and Braintree. Brought Shape Up to the team.
2022
Senior software engineer, Auckland, New Zealand
Web3: Solidity smart contracts on Ethereum, a Node and GraphQL API on Lambda, and the Vue and React apps on top.
Outer core, 2,890–5,150 km
2023–Sep 2024
Senior software engineer, Auckland, New Zealand
Joined as a contractor and stayed. Brought TypeScript into the codebase, built serverless APIs on AWS, set up CI/CD and test automation, and shipped the first AI integrations.
Inner core, 5,150–6,371 km
Three roles at Onit, each one closer to where AI meets real customers.
Sep 2024–Apr 2026
Principal AI engineer, Auckland, New Zealand (remote from Bordeaux)
Designing and shipping AI features in production on OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini models, including fine-tuning. AWS microservices in Node and TypeScript, React and Next.js front ends, and the team's playbook for putting LLMs in front of real users.
Apr–Sep 2026
Forward deployed engineer, Auckland, New Zealand (remote from Bordeaux)
Out of the lab and into the field: working directly with Onit's customers to get its AI into their real workflows, from integration and deployment to turning what they need into product.
6,371 km. The centre of the Earth.
From here on, down is up.
Ascent, 7,592 km
After Onit, I went independent. Same tunnel, new machine: I'm the one steering it now.
Oct 2026–now
Freelancer, solopreneur, Angoulême, France
Back on my own, with everything the tunnel taught me. I help teams put AI into production and build the platforms around it: client portals, document generation, integrations, and websites that load fast.
Sites and tools I've built for clients and for myself. Every sample is live; click one to visit it.
Auckland
You made it through. I've since made the trip back: I'm freelancing from Angoulême now, for clients anywhere. Need AI in production, a platform or a website? The machine's console is still on: type contact, or help to see what else it does.
Strictly speaking, Angoulême's antipode is in the Pacific, about 1,080 km from Auckland. We corrected course somewhere in the mantle.