About

I am Robin Lawson-Duckett, an independent software engineer based in Cardiff. I work end-to-end on production systems: currently cross-chain swap and account-abstraction infrastructure at OneBalance (Frontier Research). Before that: DeFi Gaming, Fintech, Identity Verification, and way before that, working on embedded Smart TV platforms at MySpace. Seventeen years of software engineering, in and around web technologies.

When I'm not in front of a keyboard, I build and fly (and sometimes attempt to race) FPV Quadcopters.

I also tinker with game development in Godot, think about where AI tools fit into engineering, and have a long-standing soft spot for Cyberlife's Creatures, an artificial-life game series from 1998 that shaped a lot of my early thinking about software.

This is where I write about things I find interesting. Reach me at robin@diod.es.