About
My name is Luke and I am an AI-Leveraged Solutions Engineer based in Auckland. I am studying Rust, Python and ML to build local-first systems — agents and tools that run on my own hardware. Before this, fifteen years as a live-sound audio engineer; elsewhere online I go by nzgamerluke.
Collections
Aotearoa Research
A typed entity graph of problems, drivers, and solution camps across all 16 regions of New Zealand. Built on a 10 / 50 / 100-year horizon; every claim is traceable to a source.
Science
AI-drafted reference notes across computer science, climate science & AI, and medical science. Useful for orientation; verify before citing.
David Roy Simmons
Ethnologist, M.B.E. (1985). Thirteen major works on Māori art, history, and place names.
Projects
A working portfolio of what I am building or have retired — Job Scout, streamfinder, the personal finance dashboard, the voice clone, this site itself. Each entry links to a longer build log or post-mortem.
Blog
Notes from what I am studying — local-first AI, transport, climate, craft. Updated whenever something is worth writing down.
What I’m building
Three things keep me at the keyboard most days. This site itself —
written from scratch in Flask with Jinja templates and a single hand-written
stylesheet, no JavaScript framework, no third-party scripts beyond Google
Fonts. The Aotearoa research project — a typed entity graph of problems,
drivers, and solution camps across all 16 regions of New Zealand, validated
against JSON Schema and rendered into Markdown through a lint-gated
pipeline. A local AI agent — built around Ollama running qwen2.5 on
my own hardware, evolving from an earlier autonomous web-orchestrator
experiment (LAWO) into a more general personal assistant that never leaves
my network.
About this site
Built with Flask and Jinja, styled by hand in one stylesheet, served locally on my own machine. No tracking, no analytics, no third-party scripts. Set in Fraunces for display and Inter for body text. The cover photograph was taken in Aotearoa.
I am studying AI, so it felt right to build with it. Anthropic’s Claude (via Claude Code) did a lot of the scaffolding, template wiring, and copy-editing alongside me. The editorial decisions — what goes in, what it says, what it looks like — are mine.