Hello! 👋

I’m Matthew, a 38-year old programmer and business person who lives in York, UK.

I grew up in Headington, Oxford 🦈, and studied Classics & Computer Science (badly) at King’s College in Cambridge 1998-2001.

My work

I’m Managing Director of Bytemark, which is the UK’s cloud hosting company with its own data centre in York. My old friend Peter Taphouse is its co-founder. I’ve spent my career learning management & leadership in a business that grew from engineering ideals. We sold the company to iomart in August 2018 and I’m working there well into 2019.

I’m a director with One Tenth Human, a theatre company producing science-inspired arts events.

I helped organise the 5th DotYork, York’s premier technology conference and a reliably interesting day out.

Some things I did

• 2018 Sold my company after building it up to 2400 customers & £3.3m revenue
• 2015 Designed version 1 of Bytemark’s anonymous recruitment system
• 2015 Talk: Fair Tax Mark - a perspective from small business at the Fair Tax Mark conference
• 2012 Published first version of flexnbd, the network storage system that powers BigV
• 2011 Designed Bytemark’s BigV hosting platform
• 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 with Peter Taphouse
• 2000 Published riscose, an experimental emulator for Acorn computers
• 1998 Employed at Aleph One Ltd writing features for PCPro 3, the PC emulator for Acorn computers
• 1997 Directed a production of Euripides Medea at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
• 1997 Published Socketeer, an easy internet dialler for Acorn computers
• 1996 Published Swarm, a shameless copy of Crystal Quest, in Acorn User

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