I'm a Platform Engineer and Squad circle Lead by day @bjss, also on the D & I team and the A.I. driven-development steering group. By night I'm a dad, musician, football coach, AI explorer and attempted screenwriter. I love blending creativity and tech, and I'm always hacking something.
- 🧠 Currently exploring ML and AI, studying for AWS certifications.
- 🎛️ Building tools in Terraform, Python, PowerShell and Bash.
- 🧪 Experimenting with machine learning, object detection, image processing, and generative AI.
- 🎶 Releasing the final album as Bearcraft, before AI takes over the music scene entirely.
- repocopy - A small utility to help give context to gen-AI vibe-coding sessions.
- bearcraftmusic – Website for my main music project.
- Euro2024PredictorEuro2024Predictor – A short hackathon to predict the outcome of the Euros 2024.
- 🎸 I sometimes tour as a guitarist with Scritti Politti
- 🥸 I used to play with Frank Sidebottom and in the cult TV band Dream Themes
- ⚽ I’m a youth football coach
- 🥅 I love playing football despite being I'm quite bad
- ♟️ I’m working to add 50–100 points to my Chess ELO every year
- 🎬 I’ve recently discovered screenwriting, and I’m hooked
- 👨👧👦 I'm a dad of two teenagers
- ⛰️ I'm in a group of confused dads who roam mountains, cliffs, coastlines and rivers
- 👥 I founded the Bristol WinOps meetup
- 🎮 I hosted a Global Games Jam
- 📫 Want to collaborate or just say hi? DM me on LinkedIn
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate
- KCNA - Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate
- Certified Chef Developer Basic Chef Fluency Badge
- Databricks Generative AI Fundamentals
- Databricks Lakehouse Foundations
- Databricks AWS Platform Architect
- Databricks Platform Administrator