Hello!

I'm Marcus Bointon, a skier, songwriter, software developer, security wiz, email expert, entrepreneur, and privacy advocate. My journey with computers began in the 1980s, through two computing degrees, numerous support roles (including for HP and Apple), and I've been a professional developer since the 1990s.

Currently, I'm engaged in writing and pentesting for Radically Open Security, developing smartmessages.net, and supporting  1CRM in the UK.

I'm a contributor to numerous open-source projects, including WordPress and Laravel, but I'm mostly known as the maintainer of PHPMailer, the second-most forked PHP project on GitHub, and likely the world's most popular email sending code; as a bonus, I wrote the HTML5 email address spec.

I have strong skills in PHP coding, Linux system administration, technical writing, and MySQL admin. I'm a passionate advocate for digital rights and privacy, including GDPR. Since 2006, I've been speaking at technical conferences around the world. Electronic music is something of a passion, and I write songs about open source! Though originally British, I'm now French, and I live in the French alps with my wife, kids, cat, guitars, bikes, and perhaps too many skis.