Hello! 👋
I’m a 41-year old software engineer and internet infrastructure expert. If your team don’t like dealing with hosting problems, you should hire me to improve it.
At Black And White Software I am building GuestRevenue, an accounting tool for owners of holiday lets and vacation rentals.
I’m a trustee of One Tenth Human, an award-winning theatre company, creating brain-stretching adventures with extraordinary artists, kids and scientists.
I co-own York Holiday with my wife Alice - we run 3 lovely holiday homes in our home town of York.
In the past
From 2002-2018 I co-founded (along with Peter Taphouse) and was Managing Director of Bytemark a friendly UK hosting company which was well-known in the world of open source & free software.
I grew up in Headington, Oxford 🦈, and studied Classics & Computer Science at King’s College in Cambridge 1998-2001.
Professional hilights
- 2020 Started Black And White Software to build software again.
- 2018 Sold my company after building it up to 2400 customers & £3.3m revenue
- 2015 Designed and programmed v1 of Bytemark’s anonymous recruitment system
- 2015 Talk: Fair Tax Mark - a perspective from small business at the Fair Tax Mark conference
- 2012 Designed and programmed v1 of flexnbd, the network storage system that powers BigV
- 2011 Designed and programmed Bytemark’s BigV hosting platform with Nick Thomas and Alex Young
- 2004 Talk: Getting the best from your server with User-Mode Linux at UKUUG Winter conference
- 2003 Article: Dropping Windows with WineLib in Dr. Dobb’s Journal
- 2002 Co-founded Bytemark, an engineering-centred hosting company, with Peter Taphouse
- 2000 Programmed riscose, an experimental open-source emulator for Acorn computers
- 1998 Employed at Aleph One Ltd writing BIOS code, a complete UI rewrite & manuals for the last major release of PCPro 3, the PC emulator for Acorn computers
- 1997 Directed a production of Euripides Medea at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 1997 Programmed Socketeer, an easy internet dialler for Acorn computers
- 1996 Programmed Swarm, a shameless copy of Crystal Quest, in Acorn User
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