About Me
Hi, I am Mark, an IT/Tech Vet with 20+ years experience in various technical and leadership disciplines. I am a literal bag of stardust, living one chemical reaction to the next.
I am an engineer at heart with a passion for security, data and any science related subjects. A big geek, with an appreciation for pop culture nerd humour. An amateur cryptologist with a great passion for the history of cryptography, in-fact I am a friend and patron of Bletchley Park.
What Is This Blog For?
As you can probably tell, I am a terrible writer. I need to practice, and to do that, I need a blog to keep me committed to writing articles that some of you may find interesting.
What I Do?
- Question all the things. Always question all the things.
- Furious Yak Shaving.
- Collect metrics from everything, even Humans.
- Fix all the things. In legacy and not so legacy environments.
- Build all the things. CI/CD Pipelines, cloud platforms and neat elastic band creations.
- Code all the things. I use Python and Golang as my tools of choice. I have authored/contributed to many internal tooling projects in my career, which means I’m down with Developer Experience……apparently.
Passions:
- Comedy. I like jokes.
- Films/TV Shows.
- Science.
- Reading.
- Travelling.
Books Read in 2021
- The Visual MBA by Jason Barron
- What Everyone Needs To Know About Tax: An Introduction to the UK Tax SYstem by James Hannam
- Radical Candor by Kim Scott
- The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen
Books Read in 2020
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Linear Regression and Correlation by Scott Hartshorn
- Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven
- Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan
- The Art of Statistics by David John Spiegelhalter
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today by Linda Yueh
- Quiet by Susan Cain
Books Read in 2019
- Python Pattern Designs by Kamon Ayeva & Sakis Kasampalis
- User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn
- The Great Silence by Milan Cirkovic
Books Read in 2018
- The Simpsons & Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
- 17 Equations That Changed The World by Ian Stewart
- Probability - A Beginners Guide To Permutations and Combinations
- Chancing It by Robert Matthews
- The Science Of Interstellar by Kip Thorne
Books Read in 2017
- Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh
- Naked Trader by Robbie Burns
- Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlift
- Big Bang by Simon Singh
- Why does E=mc2 by Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw
Books Read in 2016
- How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
- The Code Book by Simon Singh
- How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie