...A work in progress, as life tends to be

Born in Australia to 6th generation immigrants,
I am fortunate to have both lived and travelled extensively across asia, europe, and the americas.

Timeline #

1980's #

• I was born, and still highly regard this decision
• Computers were ever present in the family home. I remember tractor paper. The printscreen button actually did that.
• My father attended Siggraph in North America and took the family along. I was at an age where computer graphics were it.
• Got stuck in a lift with my brother in Vancouver
• Skied backwards down hill
• Saved my baby brother from the pool
• World Expo 88 in Brisbane

1990's #

• Television, video games, playing my drum kit.
• Laptops at school
• Rugby and Debating
• Hex editing game files, BBS networking
• Macromedia director and flash
• Green hair, piercings, the blunder years
• Hosting LAN parties

2000's #

• Dot com boom and bust
• Discovered my passion for open source software – in particular creative software
• Attended and spoke at several international conferences - met friends, heroes; both.
• Career working at Red Hat as a contractor, part of early Canonical, then Red Hat full-time.
• Moved to Singapore - Red Hat
• Moved to Hong Kong - Secret agent
• Moved to Guangzou - Kudelabs
• Moved to Prague + Nuremberg SUSE

2010's #

Having lived and worked overseas for several years, I proposed to my Australian sweetheart and made plans to return home.

• Got married in true hipster style
• Purchased our family home in Noosa
• Made major inroads with my career - the catalyst for Outfit etc.
• Loss of first daughter Zuzu
• Birth of my daughter Olive
• Birth of my son Alby

2020's #

• Went too fast downhill on skateboards (twice)
• Made a career jump to a private business before a global pandemic
• Father passed away from pancreatic and brain cancer
• Instigated open source typography projects used by billions
• Minor investment in open source Figma alternative penpot.app
• Scaled business, pitched and sold it to a public company
• Exited, onto the next thing.

What next? #

I'm not sure but with good fortune this timeline is not even half done