Hi, I’m Fergus. 👋

I'm a product-driven software engineer based in east London, currently building the next generation of customer support agents at Outverse.

I enjoy doing research and engineering to solve problems, and love thinking about, designing and building the next generation of full-stack tools on the web. I'm inspired by the tools I love and use everyday, including: Sublime Text, Linear, AirBnB, iOS, to name a few. Whilst my recent focus has been on web apps, I'm eager to get back into my academic passions of robotics, embedded devices and event-based systems.

In 2019 I completed a PhD in Distributed Software Engineering within the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, under the supervision by Dr. Naranker Dulay. My research focused on building visual simulation tools and techniques using the Unreal Engine, coined “Visual Diffing”, for developing and testing large-scale human-centric cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things.

I’ve worked abroad at Fujitsu Labs for a (hot) summer in Atsuji, Japan, where I developed tools for controlling a research teddy bear robot. Had a blast exploring Tokyo, Kanagawa and Kyoto.

When I’m not coding or doing research I enjoy paddling and captaining for my local dragon boat team Typhoon, designing card games, playing card, board + video games, learning languages (Japanese + Cantonese), kite flying, tinkering with electronics and in the winter months (or at the Snow Centre) skiing and snowboarding.