About

What do I do?

I’m an experienced technology person who has worked mostly in software, leading several companies over a near 40 year professional career.

Originally a Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, CTO, and then CEO. I now do an interesting mix of direct hands-on software hacking, non-exec strategy/advisory roles, seed support plus a bit of mentoring and coaching. What I really love is building things and helping other people to build things. I also have extreme issues with saying no. Consequently have a stack of about 100 unfinished projects (no actually).

There is however always room for one more and things that I currently get excited about address:

• Digital inclusion: promoting wider participation in creating the technology we use, and spreading the benefits fairly throughout society.
• Education: new outreach and educational models to build a diverse next generation of socially motivated technologists.
• Safety and wellbeing: using good technology to improve people's lives (or just challenge and mitigate harmful technology)

What technology though? For some reason I have been heavily involved in voice AI for the last few years, and I am intrigued by how AI assisted software development enhances our ability to run at brick walls faster. I'm not one dimensional though and have built most kinds of tech at some point, both pre and post LLM era.

If you are building something you think I could help you with, or you see something that I'm doing that interests you then get in touch. I'm always up for a conversation about pretty much anything so long as it has energy and isn't just exploitive.