Bio

Over 25 years writing software across a variety of business lines from finance to communication. Currently running Elastacloud but wear multiple hats in the business looking after logistics, finances, a little bit of sales, hiring, technical architecture and writing code. Personal interests and skills in tech are: - Architectural patterns and practices for cloud and data - C++, C#, Scala, Java, Python and R (and a little Lua) - Low Level Apache Spark - Microsoft Modern Datawarehouse and reporting stack In non-tech I love or am good at: - building succinct business plans through research and market analysis - managing from the top with strong governance on management and delivery structures - execution of product delivery - Astronomy, sustainability (and calling out greenwashing), sailing, writing, training I've written a bunch of books and articles and regularly speak at conferences and contributed a lot of open source code, some of which you might be using! I'm a founder of communities such as @ukazure. I am a current Microsoft Regional Director and a retired Azure MVP.