Web applications
Angular and TypeScript front ends, server-rendered where it earns its keep. Built to load quickly on a phone signal and to still make sense a year later.
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Software for the web, the phone -
and the car.
I build web and mobile applications, and I work on the software inside Audi and VW cars - retrofits, updates and coding, so the car ends up doing the things it was always wired to be able to do.
- Angular
- Ionic
- Retrofits
- Coding
- Diagnostics
Three surfaces
- WebAngular · TypeScript · SSR
- MobileIonic · iOS & Android
- In-carRetrofits · Coding · Updates
Birmingham · BTech
What I do
Three surfaces, one toolbox.
Most of my week is software - a browser, a phone, or the screen in a dashboard. Different surfaces, the same habit of getting something working and then making it hold up.
Mobile apps
iOS and Android from one codebase with Ionic and Capacitor - offline-first, encrypted on the device, and taken all the way through both store reviews.
In-car software
Audi and VW: retrofitted hardware coded so the car accepts it as its own, and the software already in the dashboard kept current.
Latest build
Stashly - Financial Guardian
A net-worth tracker for iOS and Android where the data never leaves the phone. Every account and transaction is AES-256 encrypted on the device, the key sits in the Keychain or the Android Keystore, and there is no cloud account to create and no bank password to hand over.
- 9 languages
- 25 currencies
- 0 trackers
Audi & VW
The features it left the factory without.
A lot of what a modern Audi or VW can do is already in its wiring - the module, the switch or the licence is the part that is missing. Retrofits add the hardware, coding makes the car treat it as its own, and updates keep what is already in the dashboard worth using.
Android screen
A modern touchscreen where the original unit was: current maps, streaming and phone mirroring in a car that never offered any of it - with the steering wheel buttons still doing what they always did.
Cruise control
The factory stalk fitted and coded, not a bolt-on switch. A long motorway run stops being work for your right foot, the speed stays where you put it, and the car shows it on its own dashboard.
Tyre pressure monitoring
The car tells you a tyre is going down before you can feel it in the steering. That is a warning light instead of a blowout, plus the fuel and the even tyre wear that only come from correct pressures.
Maps & MMI updates
Navigation data brought up to date inside the car's own unit - new roads, renamed streets, roundabouts that actually exist - so the built-in screen stops being the least accurate map in the car.
Speed camera & POI updates
Fixed cameras, fuel, charging points and services loaded into the factory navigation as points of interest. The warning and the search result come from the car's screen rather than a phone stuck to the windscreen.
Coding & activations
Features the car left the factory with but never had switched on, and retrofitted modules coded so the car accepts them without a warning light.
Diagnostics & fault finding
The fault memory read properly, then explained in words rather than codes.
Video in motion
For the passenger, and only where the law allows it.
Work that changes how a vehicle behaves is carried out on the owner's instruction, and only where it is legal for the road it is used on.
Tell me what it should do.
An app that does not exist yet, or a car that should do more than it does - write a couple of sentences about it and you will get an honest answer about whether I am the right person for it.
btech.birmingham@gmail.com