Stuart has spent almost 20 years as a Software Engineer and Software Engineering Manager, in industries as diverse as the haulage sector and local government via internet service provision, ecommerce and big data using languages like Visual Basic, Java, Delphi/Pascal, Perl & PHP as well as being a network engineer & sysadmin in between too.

He is currently co-organiser of ShefPHP, the Sheffield PHP User Group in South Yorkshire, where he lives with his wife & 2 kids and is an occasional conference speaker.