I am a highly experienced software engineer based in Bristol, working across backend services, cloud platforms, automation and test infrastructure. Over decades I have written production code in more than ten software languages, from full-stack web systems and databases through to the last decade as a cloud engineer developing Go, Python and Rust services on Kubernetes.

My recent work was at EDB, core contributors to the leading open source database, Postgres. I have been developing their new product Postgres AI, developing gRPC microservices for identity, billing, chatbot and analytics catalog services across cloud and on-prem Kubernetes environments. That has included CI/CD workflows, functional testing infrastructure for Go services, Python AI evaluation tooling, Airflow data pipelines, Envoy/Istio gateway integration and performance analysis.

Before EDB I worked on ForgeRock (now Ping Identity) ID Cloud as a Senior Staff Software Engineer/SRE, mainly in Go and Kubernetes, building automation for customer configuration, CI/CD, Terraform, Argo workflows, testing and release orchestration. At Oracle I worked in OCI observability, SRE tooling and network automation. Before moving fully into cloud work, I spent many years at the University of Bristol building web platforms, integration systems and open-source-based services. Mainly for the charitable and education sectors.

The thread through my engineering work is making useful systems: building software that other people can rely on, making it observable and testable, automating the boring parts, and turning operational feedback into better tools. I have also packaged and released open-source components, co-run a local Python user group, and spoken at conferences including KubeCon, EuroPython, DjangoCon and ContainerDays.

I have always enjoyed drawing, painting, pottery, cooking and practical making. The art section gathers some of that work, especially life drawing, portraiture and ceramics. So the site is about all the things I make, software, tools, pictures and pots.