Architect · Educator · Traveler

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I design software systems, teach the people who'll build the next ones, and plan trips down to the aircraft type.

Three careers, one website — on purpose. And the tools I built for my own trips are here for yours too, free.

The work

Software & AI

Principal Solutions Architect by day. Essays on building software in the age of AI.

Read the software posts →

The classroom

Teaching & mentoring

University lecturing, mentoring, and honest notes on careers in tech.

Careers & education posts →Lessons for CS students →

The road

Travel, engineered

Field-tested trips, tips, and the tools I built to plan them.

Travel writing →

Built on the road

PlanItShare — the app

Plan trips, split expenses, and keep everyone on the same page — free, for friends and family.

An open invitation

These tools exist because I needed them. What do you need?

PlanItShare isn't a startup and isn't trying to become one — it's one traveler's toolbox, shared. If you wish a tool existed — especially the niche kind only a handful of us would ever use — join in: Beta testers get new features first, 5× usage limits, and a feedback tracker where ideas turn into shipped versions.

PlanItShare is in beta, and honest about it: every feature works, but not every country, airport or loyalty program has been checked by a human yet. The tools say so when they haven't — no confident guesses.

…then apply for the Beta program right from your dashboard.

The game

Been there? Done that? Prove it.

A world map that keeps score. Tick the countries you've visited, stamp your collections, and watch the map fill in — honestly.

Every traveler keeps this list in their head. Yours deserves better storage. Countries shade as you claim them; collections — from the Wonders of the Modern World to the world's great beaches — fill up as passport pages of stamps. And when a PlanItShare trip wraps up, it offers its countries and cities to your map: pre-checked, nothing imported until you confirm.

House rules. Every number states what it's out of — “41 of the 237 countries & territories in our list” — because a percentage without a denominator is just a rumor. And a layover doesn't count: that coffee in the Doha transfer hall stays unticked until you say otherwise.
Start ticking →Free while in beta — your first stamp takes about four seconds.

The other game

You flew Olympic Airways. That should still count.

Log the airlines, the aircraft types and the airports — 1,003 carriers, 392 of them long folded, and a 737-800 filed separately from a 737 MAX 8, because they are not the same aeroplane. The bars count only what you could still board today; retired metal earns badges instead, which is the only honest way to score a Concorde.

Start your logbook →There's a code quiz too. Which country is KEF in? You get four options and three of them are wrong.

The toolbox

The rest of the toolbox

Each of these started as a problem on one of my own trips: the fare that earned nothing, the country whose plug I guessed wrong, the waiter I never managed to thank properly. None of them need a trip in the app, or an itinerary, or a plan — open one and use it.

Human curators wanted

The data is checked by people. Become one of them.

Entry rules, airport quirks, loyalty-program maths, places worth the detour — every dataset here is reviewed by a person before a traveler sees it, and there is a great deal more world than there are curators. The path is deliberate: join the beta, use the thing, send real feedback. When your judgment shows, you get a desk.

Countries & entry rulesAirportsLoyalty programsPlaces of interest
Curator desks are granted after you've tested, not before.
Built on planes, in airport lounges, and in the ten minutes after group dinners when someone asks "wait, who paid for the taxi?"