Two brothers. Twins. Both raised in Whirinaki.
Bruce in Rotorua. Bryan in Wellington. Youngest of nine. Te Rarawa connections through the Harris whānau. Māori, building this for everybody.
Rotorua.
Electrical wholesale sales by trade. Self-taught developer. Father of three adult children, grandfather to two grandsons. Cold-plunge at 5:45am at the local lake — affirmations, simply deciding, every morning.
Recently separated. Sober — overcame alcohol and smoking, the kete kaupapa is part of that journey.
Wellington.
Bruce's twin. Different city, same kaupapa. Co-build partner on the kete from day one — the architecture and the vision are jointly weighted.
Two brothers, distance between them, kete in the middle.
Three years. Hardware. Skills. Partners.
- · 18 months on this codebase, nights and weekends.
- · Hardware we own: Mac Mini + a NUC + an Elitedesk in Aotearoa. No cloud-only model.
- · Skills self-taught + battalion of agentic helpers ranging across the build.
- · Partners: Papa Reo (te reo, walking-alongside model). More to come.