About
Hey there! James here. I’m a software engineer based in the Australia and this is will be my thought and experience dumping ground.
Where did I start?
10 years ago, an opportunity was put in front of me to move from Melbourne and go live in Brisbane to do a carpentry apprenticeship with my uncle. I never wanted to be a carpenter, but I saw this as an opportunity to see if it was for me and of course I was looking at the bigger picture of one day owning a business in that space.
I hated it and a month in I started to think about what I truely wanted to do…my mind kept coming back to the idea of building “apps and websites” because a year or two before me and my best mate would dream up these cool app ideas which then seemed so far out of reach.
So I started researching what I could do, I knew my oldert cousin was in Austin, Texas working in tech which got me thinking, why don’t I figure out how to do this? I always used to go over to his place, see the computer hardware and books everywhere, I thought it was pretty cool!
Not long after these previous thoughts, I started watching Silicon Valley and believe it or not this was my AH HA moment. It invigorated this desire to want to follow my dreams of building those apps I had dreamt up back in the day with the ultimate goal to work for startups and eventually have my own!
…And then the journey began.
Surfing
Surfing! Catch me in the surf when it’s pumping. This aligns well with my pursuit of continous improvement in tech, it’s addictive. There’s never a time where you can’t improve and have fun.
Credit
- Shout out to Fuwari for creating an awesome template!

