I moved my family from Maroubra to the Snowy Monaro with an 18-month-old, a German Pinscher named Dash, and a hunch. There's something about the Monaro that gets under your skin — the air, the light, the sense that something significant is happening in the landscape around you. I wanted to be close to it.
I've spent fifteen years in technology doing one thing at different scales: translating the complex into something anyone can understand. APIs. Credit reports. Insurance systems. The machinery that shapes people's lives, made legible. I've always believed that's where technology does its most important work — not in the complexity itself, but in the moment it stops being intimidating.
Passengers genuinely wanted to fly more sustainably. What they didn't trust were the claims. "Carbon offset." "SAF-powered flight." The language existed. The receipts didn't.
I watched well-intentioned sustainability commitments dissolve into fine print at Qantas — and I watched customers notice. That gap between what's being claimed and what can actually be verified is where Zerra lives. The data exists. The Clean Energy Regulator publishes it. AEMO tracks it. It just needs a translation layer — and that's what I've always built.
Building has always been the plan. I started as a founder, shifted into contracting when it made sense, found Antler in Singapore as a structured bet on a new idea, went back into enterprise at Qantas when the opportunity was genuinely interesting — and came back out the other side. Each move looked different from the outside. From the inside, the thread was always the same: get closer to the problem, and build something.
Zerra is the current main bet. AllFlights is a side project born from the same instinct — if the data exists and nobody's made it useful yet, that's a gap worth closing.
