Software & AI enthusiast
Kia ora! My name is Vince.
Welcome to astroloper, this is my personal space where I collectively sharing the journey of my digital journey. I'm a software developer as well as an AI enthusiast. I love every aspect of solving problem either by software or using AI.
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❯ whoami vince ~ software_developer ~ security ~ devops ~ [email protected] ❯ nslookup www.astroloper.nz Server: new_zealand Address: wellington ❯ task ai ~ ai_engineer ~ open_source ~ sovereignty
About Me
I’m Astro — a builder who likes systems that explain themselves. Astroloper v2 is how I run a personal site without fighting the stack: Wagtail owns the page tree, Next.js renders it headless, Docker Compose keeps local and remote honest, and Ansible vault is the single source of truth for secrets.
Day to day that means blog posts and project case studies live as real pages (not orphaned markdown), contact submissions land in the CMS even when an agent helps with the conversation, and featured work is a flag on the project—not a second picker on the homepage.
If you’re looking for someone who cares about both the product surface and the provisioned undercarriage, you’re in the right place.
Featured work
Contact Agent Bridge
Contact form that persists submissions in Wagtail and proxies chat to an AI agent—so visitors get a conversation, and you still get a durable inbox.
- AI
- Next.js
- Django
- Wagtail
- Redis
Te Ohu Kaimoana
Website for Te Ohu Kaimoana, the organisation that supports iwi to protect and enhance their fisheries taonga through leadership, advocacy and innovation. Built while working at Octave, a digital agency in Wellington.
- Webflow
- GSAP
- Finsweet Attributes
Bret McKenzie
Official website for Grammy and Academy Award winning musician Bret McKenzie, launched alongside his album Freak Out City. A bold, colourful, animation-heavy site covering music, tour dates, videos and a mailing list.
- Webflow
- GSAP
- ScrollSmoother
- SplitText