2025 review

Mentored two awesome new software developers: one recent university graduate, and one junior developer who was finishing a post-graduate degree. Took on an official "Team lead" role while still operating as an Individual Contributor (IC). Worked in areas of computer vision, optimisation problems, multiple LLM-adjacent projects ('agents'), and two big projects which I'm not allowed to talk about YET.

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2024 review

We got a lot of projects into production. AI is still a major theme of my work. Most themes are around "AI isn't magic": I am painstakingly learning the mathematics behind modern techniques.

2023 review

Still working full time across a number of projects both professional and personal. Spent most of 2023 buried deep in cutting-edge AI work. Used Q4 to get back to basics—lots of systems-from-scratch and architecting well. Mood: take domain-driven design right to the edge of academic, then take one step back.