I came to software by a slightly roundabout route. My first job was in a data centre, monitoring infrastructure and fixing server and network problems, sometimes literally splicing the fibre. From there I moved into C# for industrial machines at Sensata, then backend work at MentorMate and Accedia, where I moved older applications onto ASP.NET Core. These days I’m at EGT Digital, building the microservices that send messages to players across several iGaming brands.
I’m happiest when a service just works and nobody has to think about it. Getting there is the fun part: reworking our Redis caching cut database load by 20%, and I’ll gladly spend an afternoon in the logs, Grafana and Kibana until a strange production bug finally makes sense. I’ve also mentored two junior developers, which I really enjoyed.
Computer Science was my first degree. While working as a developer, curiosity about how people think sent me back to university for Cognitive Science and Psychology, and now I’m doing a master’s in Cognitive Science, looking at how people decide how far to rely on AI tools. It turns out to be a very practical question when you use them every day.
