The story
It started with a website I wanted people to visit.
In 2006, I was learning to build websites as part of my studies. Building one was the easy part. Getting people to visit it, and working out how that traffic could earn money, was harder.
That question led me to search engines, and then to SEO. Web development never held my attention the way the research did: why one page was found and another was not, and how a change in one part of a site could shift the result somewhere else.
My background in engineering, information systems, and internet security gave me a taste for hard technical problems. SEO had plenty of them.
To me, SEO is a machine with interconnected moving parts. The interesting work is figuring out how they influence one another.
That curiosity took me from Perth to Toronto and then Dubai. It still shapes the work today, as search moves past the results page and into AI-generated answers.