Browser quote generator
A self-built, browser-based quoting tool with live preview and PDF export, written to run client quoting off a single source of truth instead of a folder of near-identical documents.
01 Personal Interests
Home-Lab & Self-Hosting:
Running a personal lab well beyond what client work requires: Proxmox VE and desktop virtualisation, VPS provisioning and hardening, firewall and egress control on Windows and Linux hosts, DNS, DHCP and VPN, and hybrid on-premises and cloud setups.
Security & Digital Forensics:
TryHackMe practical work and the eJPT / PNPT / OSCP progression as a genuine interest rather than a box-tick; alongside it, evidence-handling practice to ACPO guidance and ISO/IEC 27037 using CAINE imaging and SHA-256 verification, and a working familiarity with Kali, Parrot Security and Paladin Linux.
AI & LLM Experimentation:
Running local models with Ollama and AnythingLLM, and working with Claude, Claude Code and the Anthropic API, Gemini and Gemini CLI, and GitHub Copilot — as much out of interest as for work.
Documentation & Knowledge Management:
A long-running personal practice built on Pandoc, Markdown and Obsidian, with PowerShell and Bash pipelines to keep technical learning, runbooks and documentation in one searchable, version-controlled place.
Teaching & Mentoring:
Freelance tutoring during tertiary studies, and a continuing enjoyment of breaking down technical concepts for non-technical audiences — the same instinct behind the video-training and user-guide programme.
Sport:
Rugby (1st XV), Soccer (1st XI) and Jiu-Jitsu; competitive team and individual sport since school.
Music & Sound:
Event DJ/MC and sound technician work, plus freelance DJing during tertiary studies; a long-standing interest in live sound and music.
02 Side Projects
Single-source CV generation
A document-generation system that builds a suite of tailored CV variants from one shared content pool, with an automated compliance gate that fails the build when a prohibited claim or a mis-stated job title slips in.
Video-training & user-guide programme
Proposed and received approval for an updated video-training and user-guide programme for a non-technical client base, developed alongside primary support duties.
Building Kouga Digital
An independent practice built from the ground up, solo: service design and pricing architecture, vendor governance, delivery, hosting administration and client relationships.
This site
Hand-coded semantic HTML and token-driven CSS with no build step, JSON-LD structured data, a print stylesheet for recruiters, and dark-mode support driven entirely by design tokens.
School leadership
Prefect, Peer Counsellor and Head of the Entertainment Portfolio, alongside 1st-team rugby and soccer.