I've been working in technology as a developer and a leader in many areas and still loving it.
A little overview of some tech I've worked with:
- Computers since 88 (BBC 2Mhz, 16KB RAM, Amstrad CPC 6128 128kb RAM)
- Internet since 94 (Apple Mac, 9600 baud,University of East Anglia UK schools online project, spoke at UK wide technology leaders summit about future use of internet at 15),
- Intranets/Networking since 96 (at my high school, and summer work at Nortel)
- Semantic since 02 (Southamption University, RDF structures, compliance reg content)
- AI / Search development in 05, NLP entity extraction. Training neural networks in optimized JVM, custom lucene and low level linux kernel work. Structuring un-structured data. Lots of fun.
- Web Development 2 since 06 (Ruby/JS/Rails/Java), everyone wanted JS autocomplete LOL.
- Mobile Development since 07 (Responsive web, Objective-C, Swift, RN)
- Entrepreneurship - since 08 / Agency, SaaS, Product.
- Leadership since 11 / CEO / CTO / Director of Engineering
- Looking for what's next in 2024.
I've had the pleasure to work at some great companies and with wonderful people. Highlights that I'm proud and thankful for.
- Shopify as a Director of Engineering.
- Founded Holopod.
- Co-founded Brewhouse where we created Goodbits.
- Created vanruby.org.
- Co-founded GoFreeRange
- Led Information Retrieval Computer Science (What people call AI today) at Complinet which was acquired by Thomson Reuter
- There are a number of other people, teams and companies that I've had the pleasure to work with that I will list out in time.
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