I'm currently a Senior Lead Developer at FIS, working remotely from Salisbury, England where I live with my wife, two cats and two dogs. I grew up in a small village in Derbyshire, have a Master's in Computer Science from the Universtity of Southampton and spent a number of years living and working in South London before making the move out of the capital to quieter climes.
Outside of my professional life, I consider myself to be a builder. I have ADHD, so my brain is always on the go, thinking up new projects and ideas. I love smart tech and especially how it can help me better manage my ADHD. I have two 3d-printers, which are constantly on the go printing small pieces to improve my daily life, or the next parts/cases for my latest smart home project. I'm an electronics enthusiast, though I'm terrible with a soldering iron and shouldn't be let anywhere a PCB design. I love building solutions to the small annoyances in my life, and try to write about those problems & solutions here.
I'm also involved in a project called Endless Street , a group aimed at emulating the ambitious vision of Salisbury's founders to support craft, creativity and entrepreneurship in the city. We're curerntly launching the Creative Compass program, aiming to raise aspirations of disadvantaged chlidren in the local area through targeted workshops and events delivered within schools.
I started my career working as a front-end .NET developer with Acturis, before joining AlphaKinetic to build out their Glide application; a desktop based order & portfolio management system focussed on CLO managers. AlphaKinetic and it's parent company Virtus were acquired by FIS in January 2020 and Glide was rebranded to Buy Side Portfolio Manager (BSPM).
Post the FIS acquisiton, I oversaw the growth of the development team from 5 developers to a 30-strong technical team, had a stint leading our professional services consulting team, tackled prodcut strategy as the BSPM Product Manager, before returning to my development roots as lead developer.
These days my focus is on FIS' Cross-Asset Trading and Risk platform, CATR (previously Front Arena). I'm leading the build-out of CATR's bank loan functionality, leaving behind my love of C# and the .NET ecosystem to get down and dirty with Python.
A key tenant throughout my life and my career is that the world is a better place when we help each other, and when knowledge is a two way street. I love talking tech, learning new things, and helping others where I can. Got a question, spotted a mistake or just want to say hi - feel free to reach out! I can't promise I'll always reply speedily, I keep busy, get easily distracted and ADHD means I probably forgot about the notification, but I will reply eventually! You can reach me at hello @ this domain.