The short version

I was born and raised on a farm in South Africa, then went to an all-boys boarding school in Cape Town called Rondebosch. I played an unreasonable number of sports there, despite being good at approximately none of them, ran a small tuck shop business on the side, and was, for a stretch, an enthusiastic cheerleader! Not as weird as it sounds, I promise.

After school, 2020 started in Oxford, then lockdown sent me to Amsterdam for the rest of the year, where I somehow held three jobs at once: a live-in au pair, an Uber Eats bicycle driver, and a data cleansing job.

2021 was Cape Town, a year of Business Science at the University of Cape Town. Then 2022 was travelling and working, the usual run of student jobs, before I started a computer science degree in Prague that September.

The computer science happened almost by chance, just before ChatGPT came out, and I ended up properly hooked. My family's in England these days. I'm in Paris now, doing my master's in AI and working alongside it to fund my studies and pick up experience.

Outside of all that, I love travelling, and I'll watch or play just about any sport going. Also still learning French, still very much a beginner, it's a slower process than I'd like.