My journey began like many others' - writing raw code in a web-based text editor on a hobby shared-hosting account... for fun!

After working through Mike McGrath’s "PHP & MySQL In Easy Steps" cover-to-cover, I'd arrived. There was *literally nothing* I couldn't build... until I landed my first actual developer role, complete with its merciless reality check.

Over the last 10 years, I've enjoyed writing and maintaining production-grade Go and PHP, leading an engineering team responsible for the upkeep of critical high-scale systems, and mentoring others on their own engineering journeys.

Having delivered several group learning sessions and community meetup talks, I'm looking forward to sharing my experiences on a conference stage for the first time very soon!

Away from a keyboard that makes code, you'll find me at a keyboard that makes music - writing songs, and recording piano medleys of AFC Bournemouth terrace chants 🍒⚽️🎶