Hi! I'm Brett,

a platform engineer and systems architect based in Sydney.

I've been deploying software for over 20 years. Let's talk.

If I need to get a project to market quickly, Phoenix LiveView is my go-to framework.

Elixir LiveView is incredible, and an alluring choice for software leaders looking to develop applications super fast. However, in recent experience, I’ve seen teams hit some pitfalls.

The trick is to understand what Elixir LiveView excels at, and what it doesn’t.

TL;DR: LiveView is perfect for internal tools and simple apps. Skip it for complex UIs, offline-first apps, or if your team doesn’t know Elixir well.

I joined the Remote.com AI and Knowledge Management team in 2023. On this team I was technical lead for a number of projects:

• Knowledge Management & AI Governance Data Pipeline
• AI Support Chatbot
• AI Support Email Auto-Responder
• AI Evaluation Framework
• Ask An Expert (backend)

I began consulting for a global entertainment company in 2021. I lead the project to restructure and dismantle a Kafka-based event-sourcing system costing the business tens of thousands of pounds every quarter in infrastructure costs.

SplitFire is an independent game I released which allows 2 players to battle head-to-head on a single mobile device.

I joined Wi5 in 2018, and worked as Tech Lead working predominately on their architecture, AWS infrastructure, and building their Point-of-Sale integrations and payment processing systems. Wi5 was a POS integrated Order & Pay system for the hospitality industry. Wi5 has since pivotted to focus on payment processing and renamed to “Onvi”.

One of the greatest features of the GIT version control system is its ability to rewrite local history before pushing it to a remote repository.

You might have read the infamous blog posts titled “Rails is Dead”, but I have seen development teams flounder over and over again when they try and reinvent the wheel using NodeJS on the backend.

The “greenfield” project is known by developers as a productivity Nirvana. It is a beautiful place where there is no legacy, no bugs and endless possibilities. It is also littered with mines.

I’ve recently seen a number of anti-patterns around the creation and early growth new projects, and thought I’d summarize the anti-patterns I’d seen in the past as a guide for developers to avoid these common pitfalls.

Immerse is a VR startup based in London, UK. Immerse provides an enterprise virtual reality CMS and Unity SDK . I joined the company in 2017 as their lead DevOps Engineer to lead the company’s effort in becoming a global VR platform.

Quiqup is a realtime delivery platform.

Quiqup provides a customer-facing iOS application which allows customers to order from any restaurant or store in London and get it delivered within minutes.