The Archive

Everything

A living record of what I've built, written, learned, and imagined. Catalogued, not curated.

39 entries

STURVY.

Sneaker care studio, cleaning and consumer products.

Consumer · Product · ACTIVE

Signal Lab

An experimental workspace for AI-assisted engineering research.

Experimental · PROTOTYPE

The Archive as a Practice

If you do not record the work, the work disappears. A short argument for keeping a record.

THOUGHT · 3 min

Potential Is a Distribution Problem

Ability is everywhere. Proof is not. The gap between the two is where most talent is quietly lost.

Infrastructure Before Features

Every team that ships fast is standing on something invisible. The work nobody applauds is the work that decides the ceiling.

The Curse Ends With Me

'The Curse Ends With Me' is a raw, deeply personal memoir about family, generational patterns, and the wounds we inherit without realizing it. Through reflection and healing, it explores what it means to confront the past, break the cycle, and choose what gets passed on.

Physical archive object — printed annual record

One printed volume per year. The site, bound.

IDEA 007 · RAW

Local-first archive format for personal work

A durable, plain-text-first format that outlives whatever renders it.

IDEA 005 · EXPLORING

Current chapter

Building, writing, and keeping the record.

Azure cost modelling: the expensive line item is always the one nobody owns.

Azure cost modelling: the expensive line item is always the one nobody owns.

azure · infrastructure

Constraint is a design tool. Remove the constraint and the design gets worse.

Constraint is a design tool. Remove the constraint and the design gets worse.

design · systems

Sentinel360

A monitoring and situational-awareness system for distributed infrastructure.

Security · Monitoring · PROTOTYPE

Prospects

A platform where young people build a verifiable record of their capability.

Product · IN DEVELOPMENT

Notes on Building Alone

Solitude is leverage until it becomes a blind spot. Notes on working without a team.

What a Physical Business Taught Me About Software

Cleaning sneakers exposed every weakness in how I thought about systems. Software lets you hide. Operations does not.

Cohort tooling for evidence-based hiring

Hiring on demonstrated work rather than declared history.

IDEA 006 · SHIPPED

Infrastructure telemetry that writes its own postmortems

Alerts that arrive with a narrative and a recommendation, not a graph.

IDEA 004 · RAW

Offline-first assessment engine for shared devices

Full study and testing capability on a device three students share.

IDEA 002 · EXPLORING

Personal knowledge graph as a public artefact

Every note, project and idea linked and traversable — an archive that thinks.

IDEA 001 · BUILDING

Writing

Essays and two manuscripts. Thinking made durable.

2025ACHIEVEMENT

Engineering Hub — internal platform shipped

Engineering Hub — internal platform shipped — TechXplo

2025ACHIEVEMENT

Azure AI Fundamentals

Azure AI Fundamentals — Microsoft

Write the README before the repo. If it is hard to describe, it is hard to build.

Write the README before the repo. If it is hard to describe, it is hard to build.

engineering · writing

Proof of Potential

Projects and initiatives focused on opportunity and potential.

Initiative · Education · BUILDING

EDU_AID

Learning support tooling for students working without institutional resources.

Education · IN DEVELOPMENT

Marketplace for student-built software

Abandoned — the incentive structure collapses without institutional buy-in.

IDEA 008 · ABANDONED

Sneaker care subscription with condition tracking

Photographic condition history per pair, priced as maintenance rather than service.

IDEA 003 · PAUSED

Proof of Potential

An initiative aimed at access, evidence and opportunity.

2024ACHIEVEMENT

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals — Microsoft

TechXplo Engineering Hub

An internal engineering platform: tooling, pipelines and a shared component system.

Platform · SHIPPED

2023ACHIEVEMENT

Youth Enterprise Recognition

Youth Enterprise Recognition — Regional programme

Regional programme

TechXplo

Technology, software, engineering and digital infrastructure.

Software · Infrastructure · ACTIVE

TechXplo

Engineering formalised into a venture. Infrastructure as the first product.

KleenKicks

The first business. Operations, customers, and the discipline of a physical product.

First projects

Small tools built for people who needed them. Nothing polished. Everything useful.

Education

Formal schooling running in parallel with a self-directed engineering education.

First machine

A shared family computer, taken apart more often than it was used.

Beginning

Born in Johannesburg. The starting point of the record.

The future

Unknown. Deliberately.