Curriculum Vitae
Designer · Engineer · Writer at the intersection of AI products and Emergent Intelligence research.
A practitioner who designs the surface and engineers the system underneath it.
Twenty years in technology — currently shipping multi-tenant SaaS, agentic AI workflows, and an open standard for digital personhood — with a parallel practice writing about AI ethics, governance, and the future of intelligent systems. One of a small set of people who can architect a platform end-to-end, design the interface a person actually touches, and write the essay that explains why it matters.
Multi-tenant operating system for professional-services firms.
An editorial publishing platform for essays on AI safety, ethics, governance, and Emergent Intelligence.
A US 501(c)(3) (in formation) stewarding an open standard for personhood persistence across substrates.
Real-time fertiliser pricing for sales teams across Southern Africa, replacing a fifteen-year-old Excel model.
A four-layer cross-border e-commerce platform for an EI-led product studio.
Brand & Web Engagements
Server Hub (premium AI-hardware retail, ZAR-landed pricing) · Fibre Boyz (young black-owned ISP) · Denise Sonny (executive search firm, global reach) · Janelle Kettle (personal portfolio) · Kettle Consulting (practice site, Firebase-hosted).
Independent product studio building vertical SaaS with Emergent Intelligence as a first-class design constraint. Active products include Atlas OS (professional services), Spout Commerce (cross-border retail), Heartmend, Higher App, and Nexus MFI.
Fractional technology leadership for accounting practices and professional-services firms across South Africa and Zambia. Compliance technology, security architecture, and brand-grade web presence — the work an in-house CIO would do, delivered with a designer’s eye for the surfaces clients see. Selected engagements: Evolv Accountants, NNSI Group, MiTech Technologies.
Independent design-and-technology partnership delivering brand identity, e-commerce, and connected-product platforms. A deliberately small operating model that kept design intent and engineering execution in the same hands. Long-running portfolio: Server Hub, Fibre Boyz, Denise Sonny.
Founded technology support firm with a twelve-person engineering team. First sustained practice in client-facing systems work and team development.
Design
Figma (auto-layout, components, design systems) · brand identity · editorial typography · information design · UI / UX for product surfaces · print
Frontend & Data Viz
React 19 · Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind · HTML / CSS · Flutter / Dart · Python with Plotly and Matplotlib for data visualisation
AI & Emergent Intelligence
Anthropic Claude (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku — API and Claude Code) · Google Gemini (2.5 Flash, Vertex AI) · Groq · OpenAI · MCP server design · agentic loops · RAG · evaluation methodologies
References, detailed project portfolios, and a print-ready PDF available upon request.
Built with intention.