Senior Technical Consultant — Financial Services · Advisory Systems, CRM Tooling, Enterprise Architecture

Roughly thirty years in IT, starting out as a mainframe systems programmer, by way of a background in theoretical physics. These days that turns into backend/frontend work and enterprise architecture for financial-services clients — with a self-hosted homelab on the side for everything I build purely for myself.

A fast terminal UI for daily-scanning the TLDR newsletters. Fetches issues straight into the terminal and shows every article's summary immediately instead of requiring a click per row — fully keyboard-driven.

_{Rust · ratatui · crossterm}

An MCP server that sends ideas, designs, or code to an independent local LLM (via LM Studio) for adversarial review before presenting them as finished — a devil's advocate for coding agents. Seven personas with different failure modes to hunt for, from a paranoid code auditor to one that audits responses themselves for unearned praise and softened risk.

_{Python · MCP · httpx}

Bass guitar, Warhammer 40K, cycling, Catan, an ornamental garden that always has something to prune, and live-coding music with Strudel/TidalCycles.