I'm a friendly digital native who helps businesses achieve technical excellence.
I deliver performant solutions, prove concepts quickly, work at scale, and offer accessible insight to complex systems.
I work primarily in the online media, digital advertising, and consumer connectivity sectors.
I have launched planes from space, built nationwide WiFi platforms, and helped keep Google secure.
In my spare time, I try to do unique and interesting things with my friends. Like climbing a wind turbine, visiting Chernobyl (twice), sinking in a ship, cutting weed with an amphibious boat, scooting around a human powered theme park or driving a car from a third-person perspective.
I was first employed to develop new ways to tell stories, encourage conversation and make quizzes even more fun at BuzzFeed, as an editorial developer.
I now work on their Infrastructure team, with a focus on platform engineering - the infrastructure which empowers developers across the whole range of BuzzFeed properties.
Full-stack developer for the Mirror Online and us vs th3m teams. Authored several community-powered engines, article-enhancing scripts, games, toys and much more aside.
Building WiFi solutions for partners in the transport industry.
Updating a nationwide WiFi estate to modern standards and leading the technical operations team for a small business.
Develop Sledge, Hoop's in-house CMS, and provide strategy assistance / architectural solutions.
Strategic development for viral video + development of links to industry partners, point-of-contact for web trends and innovation. As with most of my roles, if there was a technical challenge, I'd be there to facilitate.
A crash course in becoming a member of your organisation that people want to work with, as told by someone who did everything wrong the first time, so you don't have to.
A candid 25-minute crash course in assembling a crack team to build at scale and speed within an existing organisation.
Aimed at encouraging young people to get started in STEM, a guide to shipping your first project, and knowing when to move on to something new.
Conceptualised and developed by myself, Jon Burkhart, and David Caygill. We built a talking paper shredder and unleashed it on Austin, Texas, in this one-off intimate talk with other like-minded technical tinkerers.
I spoke at ITC about Music Search Plus, a service I operated until July 2009. The service was among the first to offer users instant streaming and downloads of freely available music.