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What I am currently focused on. Inspired by nownownow.com.
Last updated: October 14, 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
- DevDay Exchange Community: Brisbane — October 20, 2026 at The Precinct. A project showcase at the Codex Community Brisbane evening unpacking OpenAI DevDay 2026.
- Ship, Then Sell It: Build Club Brisbane x AdaL — October 22, 2026 at The Precinct (co-organiser). Bring a project and leave with a demo video and a launch post.
For future speaking invitations and user-group sessions, get in touch.
Recent
- GitHub Copilot Dev Days Brisbane — September 24, 2026 (mentor). A hands-on workshop on agent-driven development with the GitHub Copilot app, from picking up issues to merging pull requests.
- Codex Community Meetup – Brisbane — How to make a custom b-day gift with Codex? (September 14, 2026) at The Precinct. Turning an idea into a real gift over two weekends with image generation, Codex computer use and the cardstock and pens I had. Interactive slides.
- 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.