I build software, games, and the occasional strange experiment. Currently a Software Engineer at the Raspberry Pi Foundation working on Ada Computer Science, after a PhD and postdoc in games and XR at Southampton, where I shipped an AR heritage game at the 5,000-year-old stone circle of Avebury.
PhD in Computer Science · First-Class BSc · University of Southampton
Ages of Avebury
Locative AR Heritage Game · iOS & Android · Lead Developer
Locative AR heritage game deployed at a UNESCO World Heritage Site with the National Trust. Players explore Avebury across three time periods - Neolithic, Medieval, present day. Uses real-time ML silhouette detection to generate personalised 3D standing stones from player body shapes, which persist on the server and appear for future visitors. ~390 downloads across iOS and Android since launch.
Unity 6
AR Foundation
MediaPipe
TensorFlow Lite
Marching Cubes
Mapbox
iOS
Android
Experience
Software Engineer
Jul 2026 - Present
Raspberry Pi Foundation · Ada Computer Science
- Working across the full stack of Ada Computer Science, a free computer science learning platform used by students and teachers - React/TypeScript frontend, Java backend, PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch.
- Seconded to the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology.
Research Fellow
2023 - May 2026
LoGaCulture Project · University of Southampton
- Built and shipped Ages of Avebury - a locative AR heritage game deployed at Avebury World Heritage Site with the National Trust. ~390 downloads across iOS and Android since launch.
- Designed and built LUTE Server - a production .NET backend handling JWT auth, game telemetry, shared persistent state, and an admin panel.
- Contributed AR implementation, documentation, and bug fixes to LUTE - the open source Unity toolkit powering the project.
- Collaborated across a four-country EU Horizon consortium (Portugal, Ireland, Germany and UK), contributing to joint publications and shared research outputs.
PhD Researcher
2019 - 2025
University of Southampton
- Designed, built, and iterated StuckInSpace from scratch in Unity - an asymmetric VR co-op game used as a research instrument across VR headset, PC, and phone modalities.
- Conducted two user studies with groups of participants playing the game - handling recruitment, ethics approval, session facilitation, and data analysis.
- Implemented real-time cross-device audio streaming (FMOD over WiFi) for the second experiment.
- Conducted a systematic review of immersion and embodiment literature to ground the research framework.
- Published at IEEE VR 2021 and CHI PLAY 2020 Doctoral Consortium.
Android Developer - Internship
Jul - Sep 2018
University of Southampton
- Built an Android computer vision application in a team of two to detect and extract text from inventory labels - used for warehouse management and stock tracking.
- Implemented the label detection and OCR pipeline, working through camera calibration, perspective correction, and text recognition.
Projects
LUTE Server
Production backend API for LoGaCulture. Handles game logging, shared variables, JWT authentication, admin panel, and the persistent stone shape social system. Deployed in production across Southampton and Bournemouth research teams.
.NET
SQLite
JWT
Docker
REST API
LUTE
Unity toolkit/engine for creating narrative location-based heritage games. Contributed AR implementation, documentation, and bug fixes.
Unity
C#
AR
StuckInSpace
Asymmetric VR co-op game built for PhD research. Two user studies exploring how different modalities (VR headset, PC, phone) affect immersion and co-presence. Real-time audio streaming over WiFi between devices using FMOD.
Unity
VR
C#
FMOD
Multi-modal
Technologies
Game & XR
Unity (C#)
AR Foundation / ARCore / ARKit
Godot
Forge Networking
FMOD
OpenXR
Mapbox
GPS / Geofencing
Languages
C#
C/C++
Python
Java
TypeScript
R
JavaScript
HTML / CSS
Web
React
TypeScript
Hugo
ML / AI
MediaPipe
TensorFlow Lite
Ollama
llama.cpp
RAG / ChromaDB
LoRA Fine-Tuning
Stable Diffusion / ComfyUI
TTS / STT (Whisper)
Prompt Engineering
Backend & Infra
Linux
nginx
.NET
PostgreSQL
Elasticsearch
SQLite
Docker
Git
GitHub Actions
Cloudflare Pages
Cloudflare R2 / Workers
Cloudflare Tunnels
Pocketbase
Mobile Publishing
App Store (iOS)
Google Play (Android)
TestFlight
Hardware & IoT
Raspberry Pi
Home Assistant
Portainer
BLE / Bluetooth
MQTT
Arduino IDE
Research
Experiment Design
Mixed Methods
User Studies
Thematic Analysis
Systematic Reviews
Ethics (ERGO)
R (Statistics)
LaTeX / Overleaf
NVivo
Education
PhD - Computer Science
University of Southampton · 2019 - 2025
Thesis: Characterising Embodiment in Multi-Modal Play for Virtual Reality.
Conducted two user studies separated by a systematic review of immersion and embodiment literature.
Explored how different play modalities (VR headset, PC, phone) affect immersion, presence, and co-presence.
BSc - Computer Science · First Class Honours
University of Southampton · 2016 - 2019
Final Year Project: Co-presence and awareness in virtual/mixed reality games
Built a VR game in Unity exploring co-presence across modalities - directly leading to PhD research.
Teaching
- Advanced Games - VR/AR/XR Lecture (COMP6259) — Lecturer · 2023-2026
Designed and delivered a VR/AR/XR lecture for the new Advanced Game Design course and given annually for three years.
- Game Design and Development (COMP3218) — Demonstrator + Marker · 2019-2026
Assessed and marked student game projects across multiple years - evaluating design, implementation, and providing detailed feedback.
- Lab Demonstrator (COMP1202 · COMP1204 · COMP1206 · COMP1203) — 2019-2023
Supported 50-100+ students per session across Python, Java, databases, and electronics labs - live debugging, environment setup, explaining concepts on the fly, and adapting to different skill levels. Provided remote support via Discord during the pandemic.