About

I’ve been into computers for as long as I can remember. I was formatting and reinstalling operating systems by the age of eight, and that curiosity carried me through an A-Level and a Computer Science degree. These days I work across the full stack: front-end, back-end and DevOps.

The Professional “Me”

I’m a Platform/Infrastructure/Reliability Engineer moving into Engineering Management. I currently work for Government Digital Service, in the GOV.UK Platform Engineering team. I used to work for Splash Damage as a DevOps Engineer, in the Video Games industry.

Qualifications

• AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C01) - Expired
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) - Expired
• Zend Certified PHP Engineer

About “Alteran Labs”

Alteran Labs started life as a small, Stargate-themed forum for friends and fans. It was one of my first ventures into hosting and webmastering, and my first PHP and MySQL project. The community is long gone, but the name stuck, so the domain is now home to my personal site.

What I work with

Front-end: HTML, CSS and Sass, and JavaScript. I prefer to prototype in code rather than in design tools.

Back-end: Whatever. Go, PHP, Ruby, TypeScript. Just choose the right tool for the right job.

Ops: AWS, Docker, Nginx, Git (yes, including git bisect), Terraform, Bash.

Tools I like: Laravel, Bootstrap and Semantic UI for quick UI work, and PhpStorm.

Everything else

Travel and photography. I like visiting new places in the UK and abroad, and Germany is a favourite.

Gaming. Mostly online, mostly with friends. My Steam profile has the full list.

For my professional history, see my LinkedIn profile.