JK

He's passionate about local culture, good coffee in foreign cities, and solving technical problems that make other developers give up.

Whether he's optimising transaction speeds on Solana or figuring out why a distributed system is behaving weirdly from a cafe in Thailand, he gets it done.

He supports Spurs, which means he's well-trained in managing expectations and finding silver linings. Unlike Tottenham's trophy cabinet, his GitHub contributions are extensive.

From New Zealand originally (not Australia, thanks for asking), though JK's family lives in Australia, which explains the regular kangaroo content from his hometown whenever he's back visiting instead of coding from a cafe somewhere in Southeast Asia.

He's an in-the-weeds engineer who genuinely loves the technical depth that makes other developers zone out. JK thrives on building projects where the implementation details determine success or failure, performance-critical systems, mobile apps that need to feel native, blockchain infrastructure where milliseconds matter.

JK is passionate about the craft of engineering, not just shipping features, but shipping them well. He loves Rust with what some might call (Specifically George) an unhealthy obsession, defending memory safety and zero-cost abstractions with the fervour of a true believer.

Give him a complex technical problem and he'll disappear into focus mode (probably rewriting it in Rust), emerging with solutions that are both elegant and fast. He's the kind of engineer who makes hard things look easy, mostly because he's willing to do the hard work others skip.