Independent software engineer and technologist with 20+ years’ experience building practical systems across research, product, and public-facing services.

Alongside software, I’m the founder of Moving Stillness — School of Somatics, where I teach embodied movement practices.

I’m interested in working from the places where separate domains meet, inform each other, and become mutually catalytic.

📍 Brighton ↔ London

Agentic systems R&D — see Projects below.

• Agentic architecture R&D — Currently closed source. Scope-based orchestration, voice interfaces, sync/async pipelines, deterministic tooling, and vendor-independent agent systems.
• Geometric folding simulation — In development. Exploring transformable polyhedral geometry, kinematic loops, constraint systems, and MuJoCo-based physical simulation.
• Entropy Guard — An evolving exploration of entropy resistance and signal preservation in iterative AI-assisted systems.
• GraphSpec — A minimal textual surface for expressing process structure, readable and writable by agents and humans.
• Seed — A simple POC scaffolding tool for starting agent-assisted software projects with useful context from the beginning.
• @jphil/bookwhen-client — NPM package author and maintainer: an API client for the Bookwhen booking system.
• The Tower of Hanoi — An experiment in controlling UI logic with finite state machines.
• Fibonacci in Nature — A simple D3 demo illustrating how complex patterns can emerge from simple rules.

• Everything Claude Code
• Next.js
• XState
• SST
• Learn GraphQL
• GitHub Arctic Code Vault Contributor

20+ years delivering full-stack software across biotech + AI, FinTech, publishing, broadcast media, advertising, government, public sector, fashion, and startups.

Selected work:

• Biotech + AI — ML tooling and UI auto-generation systems at ZenithAI.
• Public sector — Royal Mail, ParcelForce, and earlier British Army / MOD work.
• Financial services — Financial data interfaces and platform work at Invesco.
• Publishing and media — Platform work at Dow Jones and Immediate Media.
• Fashion, culture, and broadcast — London Fashion Week, BFI, Teachers TV, HangarSeven, and others.

• Somatic AI Collective — An early-stage cross-disciplinary collaboration exploring the interfaces between digital and somatic worlds.
• I mentor an 11-year-old learner in coding, using game-development projects to explore programming, design, and agentic ways of building software.

Amateur pianist, carpenter, hill runner, climber, stargazer, and regular attendee at Brighton Astro lectures.