Software Engineering · Architecture · Financial Systems · AI Engineering
I build and improve software systems where unclear boundaries, ownership and failure modes have real consequences.
I'm a Melbourne-based software engineer and technical lead with 12+ years of experience, including regulated financial infrastructure and operational systems. My work combines hands-on delivery, architectural judgement and evidence-driven experimentation with AI.
- claude-buddy: A deterministic CLI exploring explicit behavioural contracts and reproducible tooling.
- Dendritic Field: Generative work exploring deterministic behaviour, constraints and reproducibility.
- Independent research and engineering: Selected projects, technical writing and experiments.
I help teams clarify architectural trade-offs, surface failure modes and make consequential technical decisions easier to defend.
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The name R00T comes from Person of Interest, specifically Root's relationship with the Machine.
What fascinated me wasn't the Machine's intelligence or Root's ability to interact with it. It was their symbiosis. Through that relationship, both became something neither could have been alone.
96 has a different origin. It is my personal number, associated with safety and weight through numerology. I also think of it as staying below 100, leaving a margin rather than always pushing towards the limit.
Together, R00T96 represents a philosophy I carry into engineering:
Human and machine intelligence can become more together, but capability must remain balanced by judgement.