Twenty years in kitchens. Now I build software, in Brisbane.

Brisbane · Australia

Simon Hanmer

I ran kitchens for twenty years — Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland — before I wrote a line of code. Now I design and build software from Brisbane, on my own, from the first conversation through to deployment.

The longer version

Me in chef’s whites, looking off to one side. — Twenty years in whites before a line of code.

A pencil drawing of a Siamese kitten asleep, curled around her tail. — Artemis, who helps on the tools. Drawn by my wife, Jo.

Shelves of hundreds of white maneki-neko figurines with red ears and collars outside a temple in Tokyo. — A temple in Tokyo. The lucky cat sits on restaurant counters everywhere — I have a mild obsession, nothing like this.