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.
I’ve just started as a director with One Tenth Human, a theatre company producing science-inspired arts events.
I’m also helping to organise the 5th year of the DotYork, York’s premier technology conference and a reliably interesting day out.
Some things I did
- 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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