I am a product-minded software engineer, with 25 years of experience in building for the web. I started out as a pastry chef, but moved into coding in my teens. Most of my early career was as a founder, but in recent years I have been building dev tool products at high-growth startups. I am currently employed as a core maintainer at the Astro Technology Company. Previously I was a principal engineer at Netlify, working on the frameworks team.
I love the open web and open source software, and have contributed to a large number of open source projects over the years, including most modern web frameworks.
I build a lot of photography and image tools, even though I'm not much of a photographer myself. My very first startup was creating tools for panoramic photography. I co-founded a company building app-based camera triggers. I then created the world's fastest camera flash. In more recent years, I worked on creating Gatsby's image plugin, and most recently I created Unpic, a multi-framework component library and toolkit for displaying images on the web with around 30k weekly downloads.
I live in the south-west of England with my wife and two children. I like baking and fermenting things, and making and drinking beer and cocktails.