IT guy by day, systems goblin by night. ⚙️🌙
I love building weird, ambitious things that sit somewhere between:
- community platforms
- infrastructure
- creative tooling
- game systems
- identity ecosystems
- and “this sounded smaller in my head.”
I’m based in Australia 🇦🇺 and spend most of my time exploring how technology can create stronger online communities, better workflows, and more meaningful digital experiences.
I’m the kind of developer who:
- builds prototypes at 1am because an idea “clicked”
- enjoys architecture as much as coding
- likes understanding why systems work, not just how
- over-engineers hobby projects into mini ecosystems
- treats documentation like a first-class feature 📚
- thinks branding and philosophy matter just as much as code
- believes communities are built through shared experiences, not just features
I bounce between:
Laravel • Railway • S3 • Grafana • Automation • Identity Systems
Game Design • UX • Community Platforms • Infrastructure • Creative TechLivelatch is an evolving platform for creators, streamers, indie communities, and online identities.
At its surface, it’s a powerful “link-in-bio” platform.
Underneath, it’s becoming something much bigger: an ecosystem focused on community memory, interaction, and digital identity.
- creator pages
- customizable themes
- community interaction systems
- creator tools
- collectible “LatchDeck” cards 🃏
- event-based digital collectibles
- future creator ecosystems + integrations
Communities should feel remembered.
Not optimized into oblivion. Not reduced to analytics dashboards and engagement bait. Real moments should matter.
Laravel • Railway • MySQL • S3 Storage • Supabase • PostHogPGL is my long-term community + infrastructure ecosystem project.
It started as a gaming/dev community experiment and evolved into a much broader identity and systems playground.
- unified identity systems
- self-hosted infrastructure
- Discord automation
- SSO architecture
- knowledge systems
- role synchronization
- community onboarding
- observability + monitoring
- governance/workflow ideas
LDAP • Entra ID • Wiki.js • Grafana • Prometheus • Automation • BotsPGL is less of a single product and more of a living systems lab.
- internal tooling
- dashboards
- community systems
- horror game concepts 👁️
- automation pipelines
- identity/auth systems
- creator ecosystems
- monitoring stacks
- strange experimental side-projects
- infrastructure that feels “alive”
I really enjoy the idea of:
building things that solve my own problems first,
then opening them up so others can benefit too.
A lot of modern software feels disposable.
I’d rather build:
- tools with personality
- systems with continuity
- platforms that encourage creativity
- communities people genuinely care about
[▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░] Building Livelatch
[▓▓▓▓░░░░░░] Expanding PGL
[▓▓▓░░░░░░░] Sleeping properlyYou’ll usually find me:
- building
- documenting
- troubleshooting infrastructure
- redesigning systems halfway through development
- or accidentally creating three new projects while trying to finish one