I maintain my own server rack at home, providing free website and fileserver hosting for several community groups, including 1244 (Swindon) Squadron Air Training Corps, Wiltshire County Pool and Mazz's Disco. The rack also runs my personal media server and storage, test & development VMs/containers, and a duplicate backup stack. Outside of work I enjoy music (piano and ukulele), taking apart electronics, tinkering with opensource projects, walking, running, cycling, SUP and general outdoor adventures. I also volunteer with two local Air Cadet squadrons, training young people aged 12-20. I actively maintain a Docker image with over 500k pulls on DockerHub.
Nationwide is the largest building society in the UK, requiring stable and usable facilities to help maintain members' financial security.
Microsoft Gold partner providing e-commerce solution websites with customisation, PCI security, multiple payment gateways and DDoS protection for a number of big brands.
D2IQ provides an independent Kubernetes platform service across AWS, GCP, Azure, EKS, AKS and on-prem.
Openda develops and supports an in-house CRM/ERP business software solution, QX, written entirely in Progress OpenEdge, marketed to SMEs with the slogan "Simplicity, Clarity, Speed".
Specialised in barcode and handheld solutions for ferry services and water taxis.
Data Structures and Algorithms
Software Engineering, Mathematical Statistics, Algorithm Theory, Computer Architecture and History, Computer Networks, Group projects
Led configuration of a test cluster as proof-of-concept and developed a process for converting internal custom-built projects into container images, enabling the company to move and manage infrastructure on a HA Kubernetes cluster — a precursor to moving customer hosting off monolithic Windows environments.
Installed a Raspberry Pi with touchscreen into a car to run Android Auto for podcasts on long journeys and commutes.
Decoded the NPL's MSF atomic clock radio signal to get accurate date and time for a DIY alarm clock project, disassembling a digital clock to extract the receiver antenna and using Raspberry Pi GPIO to extrapolate the signal.
Researched Python's threading architecture and wrote code for the alarm clock project that defines dynamic threads, checks whether a thread is running, and launches new threads when one is missing.
Worked around Magento's API to export products, attributes, prices and stock quantities, and import orders, payments and carrier tracking information for Openda's QX business system, reporting bugs found in Magento's core code.
Set up three servers running VMware VSAN for a customer's private cloud environment, including load- and failure-testing, datacentre research, redundant network feeds and DNS changes, before migrating production systems from old hardware.
Actively maintains an auto-updating Docker image with over 100k pulls that makes get_iplayer easy to run with almost no configuration.