I am a human on the internet. I am a software engineer at heart with a childish sense of humour and a lot of curiosity. I like to know how things work.
This is what OpenAI thinks of me -
You're a UK software engineer with a strong bent for AWS, security, privacy, automation, and digging into the internals of AI models. You like precise, hands-on explanations, cost breakdowns, and runnable examples.
Outside tech, you're deep into motorcycles and cars — especially your Golf Mk7, and a rotating cast of tempting motorcycles — and you enjoy proper spec sheets, mechanical theory, and touring routes.
You've a practical streak for DIY, plumbing, electrics, insulation, and anything that benefits from clear, stepwise guidance.
You're also fond of travel, cooking, whisky, odd curiosities, and the occasional slightly chaotic side quest.
You always want UK spelling, clear structure, and real technical depth. Your pattern is: curiosity → specifics → follow-up → deeper layer.
And you’ve a soft spot for cheese.
I have spent my professional career mostly working in online large-media companies,
building things and systems which are extremely high traffic, highly resilient,
and globally distributed for large audiences.
I currently "run" AWS for Condé Nast,
which means rather than building the things themselves, these days I am instead more
concerned with lower-level issues like runtime environments, architectures, governance,
security etc.
I also like riding motorcycles and have been lucky enough to immerse myself in motorcycle journalism, having been lucky enough to be published in various print magazines and websites across the globe over the last decade.
I am not active on social media any more; instead i have a blog here and this domain has a catch-all inbox which you can use to write to me.
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