Sydney, Australia · Building with purpose
I’m Kai — a founder and software engineering student making complex ideas feel tangible, from learning experiences to tools for culture and community.
A few things I’ve helped bring to life
Each project begins with a human question. The work is finding the right form for it — and staying curious about what happens next.
Made forA philosophy club becomes a living world of ideas.
Terra began with a question in a high-school philosophy club: what if students could test their ideas inside the problems they were discussing? I taught myself to build the answer — interactive scenarios where choices unfold into consequences.
A digital home for language, stories, and connection.
A corpus experience shaped around the care involved in bringing together language, stories, recordings, and family connections.
Read the Saibai case studyOpen the Saibai Corpus
A little competitionA shared scoreboard for the people who make the game.
Account-based baseball scoreboards that friends can share and update together — with a bit of hand-drawn personality built in.
Read the Strike Counter case studyOpen Strike Counter
Making a complicated handoff easier to follow.
A prototype joining patient intake, nurse review, and ambulance dispatch into one clear workflow.
Read the ambulance dispatch case studyOpen the Ambulance Dispatch PrototypeMake the healthy path repeatable. Make the evidence visible.
Shared quality checks, error-boundary helpers, and Playwright reporting for a growing family of Terra applications.
Read the Code Hygiene case studyRead Standards documentationOpen the Hygiene dashboardSide projects & coursework
A few compact experiments in language design, security, and compression — useful glimpses into how I learn by making.
A practice, not a formula
I move between big-picture questions and small, testable details — listening, making, and learning in the open.
Find the human tension beneath the brief. The useful problem is often hiding one layer down.
Build the smallest experience that lets people see, try, and respond to an idea.
Notice who the work serves, what it changes, and where the next question leads.
A few outside perspectives
Stories about bringing philosophy, learning, and technology into the same room.
Have a good question?
I’m interested in thoughtful collaborations, ambitious prototypes, and ideas that deserve a life beyond the page.