About

I am currently living in Southampton with my partner (whom I dote on), my 4 cats (whom I tolerate) and 2 dogs (whom I fuss over).

I have a passion for going overboard at Christmas (see below) which means November is blocked out to put the decorations up, and January to pull them down.

I am in two D&D campaigns at the moment and I am the DM for one of them. We are playing Curse of Strahd.

I play computer games with my partner and my mother-in-law. 7 Days 2 Die and Baldur’s Gate 3 are todays roster but we have played Valheim and ARK: Survival Evolved in the past.

I have been known to replay Monkey Island from time to time.

When not up a ladder, or in-front of a screen I am on a quest to not get a soggy bottom on my banana bread. Head over to The StoryGraph to see what I am reading at the moment.

I graduated from the University of Southampton in 2012 and have since been working my way up the ranks to my current role as a Software Architect.

Which type of architect? Solution? Enterprise? Cloud? Well, I guess I do a mix of it all. Some days I am writing library code that will be used in a handful of applications, other days I am designing solutions that will have wide ranging impact on the way the business works. It all depends what interests me and whats needed of me on a given day.

I am currently at Cirium in Southampton (which was Snowflake Software Ltd.).

For more information on my skills and job history, see my CV.