I've been working in IT for almost 25 years and I've been fortunate enough to work across lots of different industries including finance, retail, defence, education and data platforms. I started my career as a Linux Sysadmin at the University of Portsmouth and my technical background includes operating systems, hyper-scale cloud, virtualization, infrastructure, storage, data and networking.
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This blog started life as a place for me to write things down, something which I’ve vowed for years to get better at. It therefore contains some (hopefully) useful and interesting posts, in my fields of technical interest and expertise, so mostly stuff about:
- IT Industry Trends
- Hyper-scale Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure & GCP)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform & CloudFormation)
- Networking (inclusing Mikrotik systems)
- Linux and operating system deployment and configuration
Recently, I worked at JPMorganChase as a Product Director for Databases within the firm’s Commercial and Investment Bank. Prior to this, I was at Neo4j as a Technical Product Manager responsible for Deployment, which consisted of Software Packaging, Cloud Marketplace Listings and Neo4j’s Helm Chart offerings - all of which are designed to help customers get Neo4j up and running as quickly as possible. I also contributed to Neo4j’s DBaaS offering, Aura .
Before Neo4j, I spent 6.5 years at Rackspace and finished there as a Senior Consulting Architect. I worked with customers all over the world and led big, complex projects, especially those involving the major cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, and Azure.
I joined Rackspace as a Lead Engineer, serving as a senior technical escalation point for major customers managing complex, multi-technology environments.
I have always been passionate about technology. From the time I booted my first virtual machine (on VMware workstation 1.1), to my more recent adventures in Cloud, IaC and Databases - I have stayed fascinated by what’s possible, and what’s coming next.
Right now, I’m refreshing my terraform knowledge, revising database fundamentals as well as learning a bit about Hugo to get this blog up and running!