About Me

Immigrant from England, moved to the US (San Diego, California) in 2021.

Born in Derby. Grew up in the East Midlands: Loughborough, Leicestershire area.

Studied at Durham University, Nottingham, BPP in Holborn and Falmouth - Business, Law for undergrad degrees and Entrepreneurship for my masters degree.

Trained as an English corporate lawyer at EY in London, before joining a tech startup client called Flux Systems in 2019.

Have worked in sales teams for the last five years and I love finding novel ways to make manual sales processes more efficient, scalable - using technology to drive sales revenue.

Started writing software in 2022 - launched my first full stack flask web application deployed on Azure, Sales Sensai, an AI based sales objection handling tool with access to product information.

Hobbies & Interests

Exploring California coastline. Roadtrips, Camping, Surfing, Hikes and Walks.

Enjoying San Diego with my girlfriend and our puppy, a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel called Pippa.

Playing Sunday league football for the Nomads.

Games of Padel, Pickleball, Golf and Pool with friends.

Why Tech

I'm super curious about everything and passionate about learning something new every single day.

I see life as an endless unfinished project that you have to chip away at forever, so its important to find something you enjoy doing, to take risks and do whatever it takes to get there.

For me one of the hardest decisions I had to make early in my career was leaving a prestigious law firm to join a technology startup.

It was not financially lucrative but it was spiritually nourishing and this course correction has provided countless benefits over the many years since.

I truly love what I do and I'm so happy now that I didn't settle until I found it.

Current Job

Currently an Engineer at Brio Technologies, working closely with Googlers to support clients in North America with Google Cloud infrastructure.

It's my job to help my clients get the most out of cloud computing on Google Cloud Platform to achieve their business goals.

I am a certified Google Cloud Architect and in Azure Fundamentals, demonstrating my ability to architect and build cloud solutions on Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

Tech Experience

• Languages: Python, SQL, JavaScript, Ruby, HTML, CSS and Markdown.
• Frameworks and Libraries: Django, Flask, JQuery, React, NextJS, Typescript and Tailwind.
• Databases: SQL, PostgreSQL.

Cloud:
1. Azure: App Service, PostgreSQL, Containers/Registry, Hosted GPT models, Functions, logs, monitoring and troubleshooting deployments, gitflow design.
2. Google Cloud: deploying apps on cloud run, functions, app engine, GKE. Data storage/analytics/visualization: cloud storage, bigquery, looker. Vertex AI, AI models, ML tasks, Agent Builder.

Currently Learning

• Learning to build Web Applications using Rails 8.
• Studying for my Data Engineering exam on Google Cloud Platform.
• Entered a Google/Kaggle competition testing out the new features of Gemini Flash/Google's latest AI models.
• Developing this personal site, using modern web technologies deployed on Vercel.