Work

Four systems, most recent first. Each covers what it was for, what made it hard, and what I would tell someone starting the same job.

2025–present

Multi-tenant commerce and ERP platform

Subscription clients, one estate

Rebuilding a proof-of-concept-turned-production platform into a multi-tenant estate, while the original kept trading.

TypeScript · AWS serverless · Next.js

2020–2025

Retail, two sales channels

Five years running my own retail business across two channels, including the inventory and order system behind it.

TypeScript · React · Firebase

2017–2021

Passengers and cabin crew, in flight

Retail software running on hardware installed on aircraft, syncing only between flights and fully offline in the air.

TypeScript · GraphQL · Ansible

2012–2017

Agency staff, booking to payroll

Five and a half years on a compliance-sensitive system covering booking candidates onto shifts through to paying them.

PHP · Node.js · MySQL