Managed and taught other children in the class BBC Computers and the Turtle to draw creative images on paper.

Work experience placement to work on the Apple Newton device to implement the first wired ethernet networking connection to work with TCP/IP.

• 1994: Schools online project, working with Anglia University for 5 schools being on the internet. Forums and BBS boards.
• 1996: Constructed an internal network of computers for the library, such that students can access curriculum content on the internet.
• 1996: When PCs weren't being used across the school network, used downtime screensavers to process Seti @ Home data chunks from Berkeley.
• 1997: Visual Basic windows desktop application allowing teachers to input student grades to mail merge them into printed reports over pen and paper across the whole school.
• 1998: A Levels in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics (BBB).

6-week summer work placement at Maidenhead. Worked on networking infrastructure and global FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) connections with Canada and other offices. Upgraded routers with ARP tables via COM3 port interfaces. Built their first internal Intranet using HTML 1.0/CSS and Netscape 1.0.

• Burger King: Achieved the fastest Whopper making time while working as a student.
• Marks and Spencer: Checkout operations.
• GAME (1996–1998): Demonstrated the latest gaming setups, including Gran Turismo (launch of PS1), and supported customers with PC gaming setups.

Year In Industry program to work with Compaq Computers, including weekend training excursions at universities. Automated Europe-wide metric collections for support centers. Prepared for Y2K non-millennium bug transition with cellular and telecom failover systems. Implemented new Lucent telephony from Nortel (digital VOIP).

• 2001: GlaxoSmithKline — packing toothpaste tubes.
• 2002: Sainsbury's — night shifts.
• 2003: Teleresearch company on behalf of the UK government for climate carbon offset research.

BSc Computer Science with Distributed Systems

• Dissertation: Constructed a mobile phone application using Java MIDP to analyze road sign symbols using Computer Vision techniques and a SOAP web-based service for lookup.
• SUSU.org: Built and managed students' union forum and social software for thousands of students.
• Martial Arts: Trained under Sijo Dutton in Hung Leng Kuen Kung Fu for 3 years across all forms.
• Last.fm / AudioScrobbler: Worked with developers in 2003 to build AudioScrobbler, contributing early code to Last.fm founders.

• KYC Sanction Search Service: Java-based search system with desktop and web clients to search individuals on international financial sanction lists. Full Enterprise .NET desktop software for banks to process customer databases locally.
• Media Search Service: Indexed 300k news articles daily, extracting names via NLP (Named Entity Extraction) for clients such as GE Money, Deutsche Bank, and Crédit Agricole.
• Java Enterprise & Web 2.0: Introduced Enterprise Java for global load-balanced high-availability solutions. Built early Web 2.0 components (Javascript autocomplete) and configured physical servers with openSUSE VM virtualization at Peer1 in Vancouver.

Co-founded Arrival Education. Built software to analyze sales leads and index news data for lead discovery opportunities.

• Twitterfeed: Built system to update Twitter from RSS feeds in real-time. Published 6M RSS feeds every 24 hours on a Ruby EventMachine stack over RabbitMQ.
• Cookmarkit: Family recipe bookmarking service.
• The RSA: Strategic advisor on the future use of digital technology in Britain.
• Social Innovation / FutureGov: Built AccessCity (SICamp 2008) for reporting unaccessible TfL entrances via mobile. Drafted Barnet Council digital strategy, advised Greater London Authority on open data, and created TweetyHall.
• Hophive: Indexed tweets using NLP for address extractions to connect neighborhood stories with Timeout and The Guardian.
• The Guardian: Built a Ruby library for their open data platform launch.
• JobsGoPublic (CTO): Led migration from ColdFusion to Rails, introduced Agile practices, and overhauled DevOps.

Organized Ruby Manor UK conference. Spoke monthly at LRUG meetups on real-time web, EventMachine optimizations, and async threading.

Co-founded London Ruby agency alongside James Adam and Tom Ward.

• Telefonica / O2: Wrote Ruby library for SMSCs to capture and forward SMS messages into APIs.
• Mubi: Upgraded platform from Rails 2 to Rails 3 and optimized development workflows.
• Chromaroma: Gamified TfL travel using Oyster card taps and data APIs.
• Alpha.gov: Designed and proposed architectural approach to rebuild UK government services using modern HTML/JS/Rails stack at the Cabinet Office.
• Voicenet: Wrote a programmable VoIP handling DSL in Ruby (pre-Twilio).

• DayDiary (2011): Built digital diary feed for family photos, notes, and videos.
• RSS Hero (2011): Indexed millions of RSS feeds with social sharing following Google Reader's shutdown.
• Redhand (2011): Security camera software for tablets using motion detection and Rails infrastructure.
• FamSnaps (2012): Photo and video hosting platform built following MobileMe shutdown.

Early JS error collection and performance monitoring platform for BackboneJS apps. Partnered with early adopters (RDIO, NewRelic) and pitched to Sand Hill Road VCs (a16z, Bessemer).

Founded premier Canadian Ruby agency working with clients like Clio, Loft47, CommandWear, and Mobify.

• Tantalus Labs: Real-time messaging platform ("Slack for cannabis farmers").
• Goodbits: Built and successfully bootstrapped/sold newsletter creation SaaS.
• Slack Later: Queue and schedule reminders for Slack channels.

Founded and hosted monthly Ruby meetup growing to 80–100 active developer attendees.

Designed Holopod — macOS app utilizing facial recognition ML to automate Slack status updates for remote teams (used by Telus, Netflix; now part of Mozilla family).

Formed VC Labs to innovate and build 3 new revenue-generating SaaS products.