👋 Hi, I'm Kieran
I'm a staff-level software developer with 20+ years' experience designing, building, and documenting full-stack web applications for enterprise. I'm based near Bristol and Bath in the south-west of England.
Projects
🚧 under construction 🚀 active development ⚒️ maintenance 🔒 archived
Agentic workflow tools
The following projects form an ecosystem of methods and tools for orchestrating change in software through AI agents. The foundation of the system is a custom agent harness based around the Pi coding agent framework. A collection of agent skills, covering universal phases of the software development lifecycle, are backed by version-controlled systems for managing software requirements, technical decisions, design documentation, delivery plans, architectural audits, and security analysis.
| Repository | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🚀 | pi | Personal and experimental extensions for the Pi coding agent. |
| 🚀 | genie | Hardened agent harness infrastructure for away-from-keyword, agentic loop workflows. |
| 🔒 | modelfiles | Custom model definitions for running in Ollama. |
| 🚀 | skills | Discrete, reusable capabilities for AI agents. |
| ⚒️ | specs | A template for a software requirements specification (SRS) repository. |
| ⚒️ | rfc | A template for a Requests for Comments (RFCs) process. |
| ⚒️ | design | A template for managing design docs in version control. |
| ⚒️ | plans | A template for managing delivery plans in version control. |
| ⚒️ | audits | A template for managing architectural audits in version control. |
| ⚒️ | risks | A template for a risk register and for threat modeling workshop reports. |
Local development environment
Tools and configuration for provisioning and maintaining a consistent personal development environment, from initial machine setup through to day-to-day shell, Git, and editor configuration.
| Repository | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🚧 | gitex | Git extensions for common source control workflows. |
| 🚀 | workspace | Install scripts and workspace config for my personal projects. |
| 🚀 | bootstrap | Shell scripts to provision my local development environment. |
| 🚀 | devtools | Configs and binaries for my development tools. |
| 🚀 | dotfiles | My UNIX dotfiles. |
| 🚀 | pre-commit-hooks | Reusable configurations for the pre-commit framework. |
| 🚀 | template | A template for new code repositories. |
| 🚧 | gh-runner | Infrastructure for a self-hosted GitHub Actions workflow runner. (†) |
| 🚀 | .github | Issue and PR templates for all my personal repositories. |
(†) Private, as using self-hosted runners in public repositories carries security risks.
Other devtools
Standalone tools, templates, and reference libraries that support my software projects.
| Repository | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🚀 | actions | Reusable GitHub CI/CD workflows. |
| ⚒️ | asciibook | A template for authoring technical books from AsciiDoc. |
| 🚀 | dictionary | Allowed spellings. |
| 🚀 | docker-devcontainer | Docker image of my local dev environment. |
| ⚒️ | docker-latex | Docker image for compiling documents from LaTeX sources. |
| ⚒️ | json-schema | A library of common JSON Schema types. |
| 🚧 | lumex | A modern VS Code theme family. |
Content
Source files and build/deployment scripts for the things I write and publish, including my website, blog, digital garden, and résumé.
| Repository | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🚀 | website | Build scripts for my website. |
| 🚀 | thoughts | Source files, and build and deployment scripts, for my blog. |
| 🚀 | garden | My digital garden - a structured repository of bookmarks, notes, thoughts, and ideas. |
| 🚀 | bookmarks | Interesting destinations on the interweb. |
| 🚀 | cheats | My personal documentation and learning notes for various languages and tools. |
| 🚧 | playbook | Documents my software development methods and tools. |
| 🚀 | standards | My personal technical standards. |
| 🚀 | résumé | Source content and build scripts for my curriculum vitae (CV), compiled from LaTeX. |
| ⚒️ | avatar | My profile icon. |
Archived projects
Older projects I no longer maintain or actively use, kept for reference or posterity.
| Repository | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🔒 | devboxes | Local development VMs for various software stacks. |
| 🔒 | eslint-config | ESLint configuration to enforce my JS/TS coding standards. |
| 🔒 | genies | Local LLM-based AI instances for code generation. |
| 🔒 | makebook | VM and starter kit for making books with Pandoc. |
| 🔒 | ocean | Experimental Ocean-themed VS Code theme. |
| 🔒 | prototypes | Code experiments. |
| 🔒 | sh | Archive of random shell scripts. |
| 🔒 | tests | Take-home technical tests for IT recruitment. |
| 🔒 | website-ui | Custom Antora theme for my website. |