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software engineer
Experience
Pigeon
CurrentFounding Engineer · London, UK (Remote)
Working on a team of four to build Pigeon. I handle all the code, infra, and deployments. The app lets you find anyone's email, write outreach with AI, and send it all through SMTP.
CodeYard
Co-founder & Software Engineer · Bath, UK
Co-founded a dev tools company and built Mordecai, which let you chat with AI using your local codebase as context. We had a CLI that synced your files to our web app. This was back in early 2024, before Cursor and Claude Code made it mainstream.
Projects
PigeonAI
VisitAn outreach platform I built from scratch. You can search for people's work emails, generate personalised cold emails using Claude, and send them via SMTP. Full CRUD, the whole thing.
Mordecai
VisitAn AI code assistant I built with a team of three devs and a designer. We made a CLI that linked your local repos to our web app so you could ask questions about your code, fix bugs, build features, etc.
EasyCheetah
VisitA site I built for an Oxford-educated tutor who runs group classes online. It handles all his bookings, and there's a dashboard where he creates lessons that auto-generate Zoom links and Google Calendar events.
About
I grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, and moved to the UK a few years back. I've been writing code and shipping products ever since, mostly as a founder or early engineer.
I work across the full stack but I really like the infra side of things. Setting up servers, managing deployments, figuring out how to keep stuff running. That's the part I find most interesting.
When I'm not coding, I'm probably lifting weights, out surfing somewhere, or reading.
Tech I use
“Live in the future, then build what's missing.”
Paul Graham