About Me
I’m a Dad, Husband, and IT Professional. By day, I work for a software vendor as a solutions specialist on cloud-native infrastructure projects. By night - or at least, for a few hours after my Daughter has gone to bed - I’m a musician, geek and writer. This site is a home for all my projects and random musings, if any of them interest you I’d love to hear from you!
About This Site
This site has been my online home for over a quarter of a century, and my digital footprints extend even further back. I’ve been cataloguing my various projects and hobbies as well as writing extensively about my interests - and in doing so, created something of a personal time capsule. I’ve tried hard to keep as much intact as possible, including old URL structures and articles - even including the www. as part of the URL! Just bear in mind that some of the content is quite dated. But please do let me know if you find anything either obviously broken or factually incorrect and I’ll update as best I can.
AI Policy
This site is proudly created by hand, and no content anywhere on it is generated by AI. I’m not against the pragmatic use of AI where it makes sense, but I believe in having an authentic voice. I feel strongly that communication and expression through the creative arts is one of the things that really defines what it means to be human, so what you see here is 100% me - mistakes, typos, and everything that goes with it.
My Work
Short version: Been programming and building things since I was a kid. Taught myself computing at A-Level standard, studied computing and networking at University. Started career as a web developer, moved into platform and infrastructure work, then into DevOps, SRE and management / leadership roles. Jumped over the vendor fence and have been in pre- and post- sales roles ever since.
Longer version: I’m guided by the 3 values I learned from my time at Pivotal:
- Do The Right Thing
- Do What Works
- Always Be Kind
Over my career, I’ve worked on both sides of the sales fence, as well as in roles spanning development, platforms and infrastructure. I’ve led platform teams and customer engagements from the FTSE 100 world of banking and commerce to public sector and defence. Over the last decade, I’ve been immersed in the cloud-native world and have designed, sold and managed Kubernetes and other PaaS environments across private and public clouds, using the latest technology stacks driven by a “platform as a product” approach. I’ve worked across all areas of the platform stack, from low-level network and storage design to performance tuning and application delivery. Interested in getting in touch ? Look me up on LinkedIn!