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I've been fiddling with computers since the mid 80s, beginning with a Sinclair Spectrum. During the final year of my engineering degree, I worked on a Finite Element Solver, which had me well and truly hooked.

I spent 3 and a half years at i2 Technologies, working on supply chain management software. I've been at ThoughtWorks for a little over 11 years now.

I tend to favour a minimalistic approach to building systems: less is more!

My areas of interest

  • Distributed systems in general
  • Functional languages (Clojure and Erlang, for the moment)
  • Graph databases and other NoSQL stores
  • Wrestling with legacy systems

Follow me on GitHub, or on Twitter.

Thanks for reading!