About (.. a tinder bio of sorts ..)
Northern boy biding his time and learning his craft in London. Remaining open to all ideas and opportunities in the hope that sooner or later a grand plan emerges - but right now would probably be best described as ... busy.
Professionally centered in the tech industry, with interest in disruptive & emerging technologies, product, and the startup scene at large. At the moment particularly attentive to innovations across E-sports, Direct to Consumer businesses, Decentralised Markets and Brain-Computer interfaces.
Currently figuring out what life's all about now that the party party all the time early twenties vibe has passed. So far that's included lots of outdoorsy-type-things, figuring out how the heck you inject character into a new-build London flat, and endlessly trawling for travel-hacks. I'm also working on my G.U.B.T (Grand Unified Bagel Theory), but for the time being that remains under wraps.
Experience
Node JS.
Python
Django
React
Jest
Mocha
MySQL
AWS S3
AWS SQS
AWS RDS
Terraform
Docker
Jira
Realtime Board
Github
I've been programming since August 2015, Makers software development bootcamp is where I got started, and I haven't looked back since.
Philosophically driven to write clean code, rapidly iterating through tools and technologies to develop the widest base of experience I can. At the moment particularly interested in decoupling applications with queues and other messaging systems, and I'm itching to build applications with some sort of event-bus such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
Professionally I've worked across a variety of projects, from CMS systems for digital publications, to single page apps for vehicle auctioning software, and portals for online banking.
Currently hacking at Hostmaker, a series-B funded home rental management company. We're leveraging the home-sharing market to offer better options for home-owners and institutional investors alike.
If you work in Tech or Product and might be interested in making a move, you should totally check us out. The engineering culture is strong, there is transparency from management regarding business goals, salaries and career progression opportunities, and we have great remote-working options, with a distributed team spread all over Europe.
Interest
Currently based in Shoreditch, the beating heart of urban culture, and so naturally I have a profound interest in edgy-djs, oversized sneakers and my proximty to avo toast at any given spot in the E2 postcode.
Fond reader of The Economist, partially because i'm an addict for Trump drama, and also because it's handy for derailing conversations at the pub.
Otherwise spending my time @ Lonely Planet pining for all the trips yet to come.
I built this site with React Static, you can view the code here! 🚀
