I'm a writer and software engineer who has worked in corporate technology for over thirty years. I've helped build and run plenty of elaborate technical systems, but I slowly came to realise that the real art of building systems, and the part I enjoyed most, was understanding the people who built them.

Alongside my work, I've taken regular breaks to write, record music, develop open-source software and build software products. I've written and spoken extensively about the human side of working in technology, including case studies for the second edition of Team Topologies and talks at conferences on socio-technical systems and what it means to be a human working in tech.

Human Software was my debut novel, published in 2025. It grew out of what it actually feels like to work inside corporate systems, alongside a growing disquiet about data centres and AI, and the thin line executives tread between ambition and greed.

I'm currently writing the follow-up, One More Island, as well as Back on the Tools, a non-fiction book about navigating a late-career life in engineering in the 2020s.