Experience.My journey

From first client to building a studio.

A progression through freelancing, team leadership and product ownership — each stage adding a layer of what it takes to ship serious software.

2024 — Present#01Founder

Founder & CEO

Absence Labs· Current

Building an independent product studio focused on AI-powered developer tools — including ReCode IDE, an AI-assisted code editor designed for mobile developers.

Responsibilities

Set product vision and technical architecture across all Absence Labs products.
Design and build core systems: editor engine, AI service layer, sync infrastructure.
Lead a small cross-functional team across engineering and design.
Own strategy, roadmap and direct conversations with beta users.

Achievements

Shipped ReCode IDE into private beta with a working AI pair-programmer on mobile.
Established a modular product platform now reused across every studio project.

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2023 — 2024#02Leadership

CTO

Spurvance Labs

Technical lead for a product studio — owning architecture, delivery quality and engineering culture across client engagements.

Responsibilities

Defined technical architecture for client products from discovery through launch.
Introduced code review, CI and testing practices that raised delivery quality.
Mentored engineers and led hiring for the product team.
Prototyped AI-assisted product features before they were mainstream.

Achievements

Delivered multiple client products on schedule by standardising the stack around Next.js and Node.
Cut average release cycles from weeks to days with CI/CD automation.

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2022 — 2023#03Full-time

Team Lead

Pillars Developer Software

Led a small product team building web platforms for regional businesses — from scoping through deployment and support.

Responsibilities

Planned and estimated feature work; balanced product goals against technical debt.
Led development of multi-tenant web applications and their APIs.
Ran design-to-dev handoff and kept a shared component system healthy.

Achievements

Shipped a booking and operations platform used daily by dozens of businesses.
Noticeably reduced page-load times across the platform by rebuilding the data layer.

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2021 — 2022#04Freelance

Full-Stack Developer

Freelance & early client work

Worked directly with founders and small teams to design, build and ship web and mobile products end-to-end.

Responsibilities

Built marketing sites, dashboards and mobile apps for early clients.
Owned everything: scoping, UI, backend, deployment and maintenance.
Learned to ship fast without giving up maintainability.

Achievements

Delivered 10+ paid projects in the first year of independent work.
Built the habits — versioning, docs, automated deploys — that still hold today.

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Next chapter

Currently building AI-powered developer tools at Absence Labs.

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