Hello!

I'm Marcus Bointon, a skier, software developer, 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 clubzero.co and smartmessages.net, and supporting  1CRM and RUSI 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.