The story
A head start that never wore off.
I was born in Southampton, England, on . It started at thirteen, teaching myself to code because I wanted to make things that didn’t exist yet. That head start turned into a habit, and the habit turned into a career — one built the hard way, by shipping.
At seventeen, while I was studying at Barton Peveril College, a bus that never showed up became Find My Bus. It grew into RYGO: real-time transport tracking serving major operators across the UK and Ireland, backing from transport group Transdev, and VAMOOZ, an award-winning crowdfunded travel app that processed over £1M. RYGO was acquired in 2020 — my first exit, and the clearest lesson that a small idea, built properly, can go a long way.
Next came EaseUp, a mobile app to help people build confidence and overcome social anxiety — something personal to me. It launched in 2025 to five million impressions and around a thousand users in its first month, then wound down when a core part of its stack was acquired and shut down before the gap could be filled. Not every company ends in an exit; some teach you more than that.
Today I’m founding CTO at Manuva, building a hardwareless movement-intelligence platform for schools — an iOS app that uses on-device pose estimation to scan how students move, flags physical-development deficiencies early, and reshapes each student’s PE curriculum around the weaknesses it finds. Same thread as always: get the hard technology right, then get it in front of real people.