I've been investing into early-stage startups since 2024.

I focus on companies that are solving real problems and have a strong technical team.

If you're working on something interesting, please reach out.

I founded PintFind in 2023 to help people find the best pubs in Edinburgh based on crowd-sourced reviews.

Tech Stack - SvelteKit, DaisyUI, Turso, Drizzle

It achieved over 500 active users and over 300 reviews.

I joined HackerNoon as an intern during my penultimate year of high school and stayed on as a permanent developer throughout my first 3 years of university.

I worked on a variety of projects:

• HackerNoon 3.0 - Lead the development of a full migration to SvelteKit & Postgres. Resulted in web vitals gains of over 20% and massive hosting cost reductions.
• AI Infrastructure - Designed and implemented a scalable hosting infrastructure for internal models using Docker and Google Cloud. This powers the AI features in the editor.
• Metrics - Developed an internal analytics system to accuratly quantify key metrics while maintaining user privacy.
• Comments & Notifications - Built a robust comment and notification system, including:
  • Real-time notifications
  • Admin moderation panel
  • Comment threading

I joined the team in Edinburgh during my summer break to learn about FPGAs

I played around with VHDL and Verilog & made some tests to detect defects.