Available for new work · London

OscarDaly.

Full-stack software engineer building AI-powered products — RAG & semantic search, LLM apps and the cloud infrastructure to run them — end to end.

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AI EngineeringRAG & LLMsVector SearchFull-stackAWS · SST

01 — Selected Work

Things I've shipped

A few projects that show how I think — from generative graphics to production cloud systems.

Featured2026

Travel Blog

A photo-led travel journal with an interactive 3D globe of everywhere I've been — plus a widget that prices a weekend away in the month ahead, monetised through affiliate booking links.

Next.jsReact Three FiberVercel
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Live in production
022025

Partner For Good

An AI-powered marketplace pairing government suppliers with social-value brokers — semantic search over pgvector, deployed on AWS via SST & OpenNext.

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032026

Sous

A recipe platform with an AI sous-chef that plans your week around your tastes, allergies and nutrition targets and builds the shopping list — a Turborepo monorepo with an ElysiaJS API, BetterAuth + Stripe subscriptions and an MCP server, shipped on Vercel.

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042026

Leo — PR Review Agent

An agentic PR reviewer built on LangGraph — reviews style, architecture and security (OWASP plus the LLM Top 10) against a RAG knowledge base, redacts secrets before any model sees the diff, cites official docs, teaches instead of gating, and opens a PR against its own knowledge base when told it's wrong.

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R3F Galaxy preview
052023

R3F Galaxy

A generative, interactive galaxy rendered in the browser with React Three Fiber — thousands of GPU-driven particles you can fly through.

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062025

This Website

A self-hosted portfolio on the Next.js App Router — containerised with Docker Compose, fronted by Nginx with Certbot-managed SSL.

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02 — Field Notes

Writing on building & leading

Notes on the processes, tools and team rituals I've found worth keeping.

  1. 1

    Getting the Most Out of Claude Code

    2025 · 10 min

    The Claude Code tips that actually changed how I work — git worktrees, plan mode, a hard-working CLAUDE.md, custom skills, and giving Claude a feedback loop. Distilled from the Anthropic team.

  2. 2

    Rebuilding the SDLC Around AI

    2025 · 7 min

    Reshaping the software lifecycle around one shared context and a fleet of Claude skills — the engineering principles, the human-led product pipeline and the autonomous engineering loop.

  3. 3

    A Dummy's Guide to Leading Teams

    2025 · 12 min

    An apprentice's field notes on the processes worth stealing — pull requests, CI/CD, pairing and the small rituals that make a team click.

  4. 4

    What I Stole from Atlassian

    2024 · 6 min

    QA kickoffs, QA demos, quality cards and PR automation — the practices I carried out of Atlassian and back to my own teams.

  5. 5

    Culture as a Service (CAAS)

    2024 · 5 min

    Notes from the NI Chamber of Commerce Future Workforce Summit — on leading loudly, mentorship, and why people really leave.

  6. 6

    Reducing Flakiness in Your Playwright E2E SuiteSoon

    Soon · —

    Taming flaky end-to-end tests so a green build means what it says.

  7. 7

    Building a Chatbot with GCP — DialogFlow vs Vertex AISoon

    Soon · —

    Two routes to a conversational agent on Google Cloud, weighed up.

03 — On Stage

Conference talks

Sharing what I've learned with the local dev community and beyond.

  1. 01

    AI & TinyML: Solving LEDC Food Insecurity

    NI Dev Conf2024
  2. 02

    Replacing Google Images with AI

    InstilConf2024
  3. 03

    Building Interactive 3D Web Apps with React Three Fiber

    NI Dev Conf2023
  4. 04

    Pair Programming Effectively

    SISTEM Conference2023