I am an Oracle certified Java developer with around 15 years of professional Java software development experience working as a consultant mostly in financial services, trading and start up environments though Im proud to say started my programming career on a Commodore 64 back in 1982 to create games using a software package called White Lightning which was a combination of Fortran and a graphic design editor - pretty advanced for the 1980's.

I love to learn new technologies and spend a large portion of my spare time on my Mac Book Pro hooked up to a few Raspberry Pi's, or taking a deep dive in to a new framework to always be learning.

I mentor junior developers through the London Java Community's Slack program and I try to get along to tech talks and presentations whenever I can.  I'm always happy to talk and discuss tech and best practices and I'm always keen to learn more from other like minded developers.