Hello, I’m Kyle

Cardboard Rocket is me. One person, based in Glasgow, building the websites and software that small businesses actually need.

I have been a software engineer for over seven years, nearly six of them in financial services, where software handles other people’s money and a mistake is never just an inconvenience. That is where my habits come from: testing things properly, taking security seriously, and writing code the next person can understand. Small businesses deserve the same care, and rarely get it.

I started Cardboard Rocket because of a pattern I kept seeing. A small business pays an agency a lot of money, waits three months, and gets something slow that nobody will explain to them and that they cannot update without going back to the agency. Or they pay almost nothing for a template and end up with something that never brings in a single enquiry.

There is a lot of room between those two outcomes. That room is where I work.

Being one person is the point, not a limitation I am apologising for. You brief the person who writes the code. Nothing is lost in a handover, because there is no handover. I take on a small number of projects at a time so that each one gets proper attention.

I work with businesses all over the UK and in the US. I am in Glasgow, so if you are nearby and would rather talk in person, that is easy to arrange; if you are five time zones away, email and a call that suits your morning work just as well.