Below is a little about me, you can also read about my work experience, my values or about things that I use.
I live in Glasgow with my partner and work as a software developer mainly specialising in frontend and mobile development. I am particularly suited to prototyping, exploring new ideas and MVPs.
One of my core traits is that I love making things. I will dive in and learn whatever I need to learn to allow me to create what I'm trying to create. This means I have quite a broad base of disciplines and experience and a fearlessness for learning new things.
This can came out in many places from my work, to hobbies, to cooking and research. As I've got older I've realised that like many of my other core traits and quirks it can probably just be explained by autism, but even so it's a trait that I am very grateful for. I've seen the opposite in people who are scared by things they don't know rather than excited and it seems debilitating.
I studied Graphic Design at college and 3D Animation and Multimedia Design at Uni. I come from a creative family, my parents are artists and both my siblings work in creative fields.
I am not a competitive person in any other area but I really enjoy taking part in Hackathons, and more recently GameJams. I'm drawn to games as they combine so many of my interests; Art, animation, design, programming, music, sound and story-telling. Together with my partner we have been exploring making our own game which I'm very excited about.
My longest special interest has been computers. As a little kid in the early 90s I loved the game Myst. When I found out it was made in HyperCard (which also came bundled with our computer) it opened a door of possibility and wonder. I had never considered that something like Myst was made by real people, and that the tools they used were also available to me. I started playing with HyperCard and AppleScript and creating little "games" and scripts using books from the library, at that age a lot of the concepts went over my head. I started building little HTML text adventures before I had ever been on the web thanks to finding a book on HTML and learning all I needed was a text file.
I've never lost my love of the pre/early web era, its openness and the idea of freely sharing ideas and tools. Also the obvious in hindsight lesson that everything is made by humans and if they learnt how to do something there's no reason you can't also work it out. I miss the optimism and utopian or transformative potential of cyberspace. I see the seeds of it still in open-source and would love to be able to spend my work time contributing to the commons.
I'm also interested in birds, cooking, photography, sci-fi, animation, electronics, plants, printing, history/myths, game design and game soundtracks. So if I'm struggling with small talk diving into one of those subjects, or anything that you have a deep interest in is a good bet.
I love making bread and have been making sourdough for a long time, more recently I've been trying to master more flatbreads.
