About
Kia ora, I'm Keri.
Software engineer, community organiser and occasional democracy nerd. This is the longer version: where I come from, what I care about and what I'm trying to change.
A bit about me
I've been writing on this site since 2005: web standards, electoral systems, games and the messy bits in between. Some of those early Posts have aged better than others.
What ties it together is systems: how people, technology and institutions fit, and what happens when they don't. I learn in public, change my mind when the evidence says so, and would rather build the thing than write the strategy doc about it.
- Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand)
- Software engineer by trade
- Writing here since 2005 (when I can)
What I stand for
- Fairness
- A fairer Aotearoa is the point, not the slogan. If a system only works for some of us, it doesn't work.
- Evidence over ideology
- Show me the numbers, then let's argue. I'll change my mind when they say I should.
- Long-term thinking
- Build for the people who'll maintain it, live with it or inherit it, not just for launch day.
- Kindness, with action
- Say the kind thing, then do the useful thing. Either on its own isn't enough.