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Last updated: September 1, 2026

Current Focus

• Shipping EF Core Bench Lab: practical EF Core query traces, execution plans, and performance investigations.
• Organising AI Hack Days in Sydney and Brisbane for developers who want practical, hands-on AI learning.
• Building useful .NET + AI experiments, especially local models and agent harnesses — most recently a six-lab course on making small local models reliable enough to trust.
• Turning notes into sharper tutorials, talks, and demos.

Upcoming Events

Nothing locked in right now. If you would like me to speak at your event or user group, get in touch.

Recent

• Global AI Construct Brisbane — Small Models, Sharp Jobs — Build a Local Agent That Proves Its Work, a 90-minute hands-on workshop (August 31, 2026) at the Microsoft Brisbane office. Building a .NET agent that runs entirely offline on small open-weight models: the model fills a typed filter, C# validates and clamps it before it touches the data, and deterministic gates reject invented record IDs, malformed JSON and low confidence before anything reaches the final answer. Built on Microsoft Agent Framework and .NET 10. Six progressive labs, so you can keep going at home. Slides and code are public.
• AI Hack Day Brisbane — August 1, 2026 at SSW Brisbane (co-organiser).
• AI Hack Day Sydney — July 11, 2026 at SSW Sydney (co-organiser).
• Brisbane .NET User Group — EF Core Bench Lab — A Peek into the Black Box (June 4, 2026).
• Brisbane Build Club — Building Real AI Agents in Notion (May 18, 2026).
• AgentCamp 2026 Brisbane Edition — From Vibe-Coded to Prod-Ready — Testing Your .NET Agents with MAF + AgentEval (May 9, 2026).

Community

• City Lead for Build Club Brisbane — organizing workshops and talks on AI, MCP, and developer tooling.
• Running the Brisbane Full Stack User Group and speaking regularly at local meetups and conferences.

Work

Solution Architect at SSW Consulting in Brisbane, focused on .NET, EF Core, Azure, and AI-enabled developer tooling.