I studied Computer Science at the University of Warwick, then years later went back to take a Physics degree with the Open University, finishing with a thesis on adiabatic quantum computation. That curiosity has run through everything since: a genuine love of understanding how things work, whether that's a software system, quantum mechanics, or the clearest way to explain either to someone meeting it for the first time.

I've spent around 16 years building software professionally, across startups, agencies and larger companies, and across a wide range of fields - scientific software, web applications, data pipelines, AI products, and plenty in between. Wherever I went, people kept telling me the same thing: I had a knack for cutting through the noise and finding a simple solution to a problem that looked complicated.

Eventually I made that knack my business. I'm now self-employed, running Lighthouse Software, working with clients to build and finish real software - and, increasingly, to explain the ideas behind it.

The part I enjoy most is explanation: finding the core of a thing - the one idea everything else hangs off - and showing it to someone simply, so it actually clicks. That's what my interactive explainers, talks, and school sessions are all about. Not dumbing things down, but getting to what really matters and making it land.