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richardkern/README.md

Richard Kern

Product Manager by trade, with about 20 years in New Zealand telecommunications across Telecom/Spark, Chorus, and now Voyager Internet, where I work on connectivity and wholesale products.

I picked up coding through The Odin Project and freeCodeCamp a few years back. Not a career change, more a deliberate effort to build enough skill to create things I'd otherwise have to commission. The projects here reflect that: narrow and practical, grounded in problems I actually understand.

What I'm building

Right now: a personal site at richardkern.nz and a website rebuild for Westgate Baptist Church in Auckland, where I volunteer as tech lead. Both run on Next.js with Payload CMS v3, PostgreSQL, and Tailwind 4, deployed to a self-hosted VPS via Coolify.

Outside of work

Aviation, kit cars and experimental aircraft construction, and an ongoing interest in building narrow B2B tools for domains I know well.

📍 Auckland, New Zealand

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  1. richardkern richardkern Public

    Config files for my GitHub profile.

  2. richardkern-nz richardkern-nz Public

    Personal site, blog, and portfolio: homelab, AI agents, web dev, and running. Next.js 16 + Payload CMS on PostgreSQL.

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