The Story
Life is a long and exciting journey. We leave school hoping to meet the world and find a place in it. In my youth I was a nerdy teenager spending late nights hanging out with like-minded technical tinkerers, learning the lingo and the history of phreaking and hobbyist computers, whilst studying C/C++ on a home learning course.
I applied for an apprenticeship and joined BT (British Telecommunications) as an Advanced Network Engineering apprentice in 2004. I felt very fortunate to be in such a great program. Those 11 years in fibre networking and telecommunications infrastructure taught me how distributed systems really work — reliability engineering, fault tolerance, and the discipline of operational excellence. That foundation shapes everything I build today.
Eventually I transitioned from telecommunications engineering to youth work and education. A musician with a love for the community. Check out a playlist of the work I have been involved in .
Taking on new qualifications and shifting my focus, I crossed the Atlantic and landed in New York City. Here I reconnected with my nerdy teenage self and re-introduced myself into a world of technology and software development. A lot of self study and some community volunteering kept me busy before beginning the in-campus Full-Stack Engineering bootcamp at the Flatiron School in Brooklyn DUMBO.
I love software development — discovering and thinking about how all the complex pieces of the system fit together.
I still keep to my community engagement work in the education sphere and have enjoyed being part of some really amazing projects in NYC & the UK. In my creative pursuits, I build the bridge between creative artist and software development with live visual audio performances, producing original music and mixing with visual media.
