Hamish Burke / Wellington, New Zealand

Software developer in Wellington.

I build things I want to exist, and I publish them. The code is public and the write-ups say what didn’t work.

What I’m interested in

I mostly want to know why a thing was built the way it was.

Technology

How things work.
Systems

How complicated things interact.
Strategy

What is actually worth doing.

Currently

Learning how software actually gets made.

I’m a junior developer at Alphero, learning how software actually gets built for real organisations. That’s the part side projects don’t teach you, and it’s most of what I’m doing right now.

Professional work

Independent

Things I built

All projects

Self-hosted GPU sharing platform March 2026

GPUShare

Built a self-hosted platform for trusted users to share local AI inference and Blender rendering, with optional cloud routing and estimated usage-cost allocation.

Result The application implements auth, local and optional cloud inference, MCP tool routing, queued rendering, and append-only usage accounting. Host availability and a stale installer migration command remain operational limits; no adoption claim is made.

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Akahu feed → double entry

Raw transaction NEW WORLD −$82.40

1RuleGroceries
2NZFCCFallback
3SuspenseNever dropped

Journal

Dr Groceries82.40

Cr Cheque82.40

Balance0.00

Idempotent on Akahu id · every entry balances

Open-source finance ledger 2026

You Inc

Built a personal-finance ERP with a double-entry ledger, Akahu bank sync and configurable dashboards, then took the commercial layer back out and made it self-hosted and MIT licensed.

Result A working product you install rather than sign up for. youinc.net now serves a sample-data demo and the documentation; the software itself is on GitHub under MIT, and anyone running it points it at their own database and their own Akahu credentials.

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Professional

Client work

All work

sprintcoach.co.nz

Client marketing website June to August 2026

Sprint Coach

Designed and built the first website for a Wellington sprint coaching business, from creative direction through to production launch.

Result The site is live at sprintcoach.co.nz with a working enquiry form, local SEO structured data, and a documented launch checklist handed to the client. Nothing reaches production until the client has approved the exact build that ships.

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