Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• datagusto is a London- and Tokyo-based software startup. It helps businesses run AI agents more reliably and safely by providing tools for failure analysis, simulating outcomes, enforcing guardrails and governing pipelines in real-time. It's particularly useful for teams deploying AI in production who want greater visibility, control and resilience.

Jul 2021 – May 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• SingleStore is a Hybrid Multi-Cloud Unified Analytical and Transactional Database Management System. It separates storage and compute and offers system-of-record capabilities.
• As part of the new Developer Relations team, I helped to build the global SingleStore community and raised awareness of the technology through:
• ● Technical evangelism, developer advocacy and presentations at meetups and conferences.
• ● Technical writing and content creation, such as demos.
• ● Technical marketing and webinars.
• ● University relations.

Nov 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• I worked in the Partner Technical Enablement team under Customer Success. I delivered in-person and virtual hands-on technical training on Spark, Delta Lake, and related technologies to Databricks' Consulting and Systems Integration partners. The team was responsible for training data architects, data scientists, solution architects, and data engineers at consulting companies ranging from global systems integrators to national and regional organisations.

Jun 2019 – Sep 2019 · 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• As part of the Developer Advocacy team, I focused on AI, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Analytics. I helped to build the global developer community and raised awareness through:
• ● Technical evangelism, developer advocacy and presentations at meetups.
• ● Technical writing and content creation, such as demos.
• ● Technical marketing.
• ● University relations.

May 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• As part of the Developer Experience team, I helped to build the global open-source Apache Ignite community and raised awareness through:
• ● Technical evangelism, developer advocacy and presentations at meetups and conferences.
• ● Technical writing and content creation, such as demos.
• ● Technical marketing and webinars.
• I presented at many global conferences and delivered over 135 meetup presentations.
• I was initially hired for a 6-month contract, subsequently extended.

Dec 2016 – Apr 2017 · 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• I worked with the Education Team to teach Apache Spark. I delivered the following Spark training for Databricks:
• "Exploring Wikipedia with Apache Spark" (1 day)
• Spark Summit 2017, San Francisco, USA, 5 June 2017.

Nov 2016 – Apr 2017 · 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• SlamData provides BI and visual analytics for Apache Spark and NoSQL database systems. I was the first hire in London, and I assisted with the following:
• ● Technical writing and content creation, such as training videos.
• ● Technical marketing and webinars.
• ● Technical evangelism, developer advocacy and presentations at meetups and conferences.
• ● Technical support.
• ● Pre-sales and sales.
• ● Developing partner network.

Aug 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 9 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• As a Medium contributor, I translate complex ideas into clear, actionable insights for technical audiences. I focus on AI, data platforms and open-source developer tools.

Jan 2016 – Dec 2016 · 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• I supported the Education Team on multiple projects, assisting student learning on the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, Node.js) and the Ionic Mobile Application Framework.

Apr 2015 – Dec 2015 · 8 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• I assisted the Chief Marketing Officer to evangelise the product at meetups and conferences. I also collaborated with Volt and O'Reilly Media to publish several articles on Fast Data.

Jan 2015 – Mar 2015 · 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• I assisted the Global Director of Marketing to develop online Technical Marketing material, such as articles and blog posts.

Oct 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• As a DZone contributor, I translate complex ideas into clear, actionable insights for technical audiences. I focus on AI, data platforms and open-source developer tools.

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Santa Clara, California · Remote

• Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed database management system. It is designed to handle large quantities of data across commodity servers. It provides high availability with no single point of failure. I delivered public training courses on Apache Cassandra and presented at several NoSQL meetups in the London area.

Aug 2013 – Mar 2014 · 7 mos · Palo Alto, California · Remote

• I was a technical instructor. I also focused on worldwide community outreach, developer relations and university relations. I delivered on-site Hadoop customer training in the UK and mainland Europe. I presented Hadoop sessions at several conferences, such as JAX and QCon. I also presented NoSQL database technology at conferences and meetups, such as the NoSQL Roadshow and NoSQL Matters.

Mar 2011 – Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• I focused on Cloud Computing, Big Data and NoSQL. I worked closely with product development and marketing teams on the IBM HPC Management Suite for Cloud and developed training material for internal and external use. I also contributed to a Big Data training course released on the IBM BigDataUniversity website. I delivered Big Data and NoSQL presentations in London, South East Asia and China at conferences, IBM Innovation Centres, and customer locations.

Jan 2010 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · London Area, United Kingdom

• I edited some sections of the DFDL standards document, reviewed and edited feature documents, developed information for InfoCenter pages by working closely with product development teams, resolved documentation defects reported by internal and external users, and undertook other tasks such as buddy-checking and sample testing. I was also a guest speaker with the Executive Briefing Centre at Hursley Labs. I continued my technical evangelism work with the academic community by presenting IBM and open-source technologies at universities and colleges.

Sep 2004 – Dec 2009 · 5 yrs 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• I was responsible for delivering IBM developerWorks Live! technical briefings. I also helped educate faculty members and students at universities and colleges on IBM and open-source technologies. I also developed training material and demos. The developerWorks Live! and university briefings were delivered on a worldwide basis. I travelled extensively in Europe and participated in several technical briefing tours covering South East Asia and China.
• I joined the BlueIQ Team in April 2008 and completed a six-month assignment before returning to the Developer Skills Team. With BlueIQ, I enabled IBM Technical Sales to use Social Software and how it could be used to improve team collaboration, communication, work more efficiently and effectively. I also developed workshop enablement material that was delivered on a worldwide basis. I also presented on Web 2.0 and Social Software at several conferences. Additionally, I participated in several IBM technical briefings where Web 2.0 formed part of the agenda.

Jan 2002 – Aug 2004 · 2 yrs 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Initially, I was assigned as Zone Editor for Special Topics (Security, Usability, Unicode, Web Architecture) and Open Source. I continued to manage and grow these zones until October 2002, when I helped with several Special Topics sunsetting. I then joined the Web Services Zone, where I helped develop tutorials for the Web Services Speed Start campaign, manage the zone columns and help acquire other new content. I also grew Eclipse content on the Open Source Zone. I joined the Software Development Platform (SDP) tutorials team in January 2004 and helped acquire and develop Rational tutorials for the SDP campaign.

Jan 2000 – Dec 2001 · 1 yr 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• As part of a small, geographically distributed team of evangelists (formerly the Informix Chief Technology Office), I was involved with several initiatives to define product strategies and directions. This included technologies such as XML. Globally, I also delivered many technical presentations on Java, XML and Database Systems at specialist interest group meetings and conferences. Another key responsibility was building strong relations with universities and colleges as part of the Informix Software Grants Program.

Feb 1999 – Jan 2000 · 11 mos · Slough · On-site

• I was involved with several significant project bids, where I took responsibility for parts of the Invitations to Tender. In one case, this also involved developing example applications in C++, Java and VBScript to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed solution. I was also involved with an e-commerce project where I analysed the functionality of the existing website, undertook some initial prototyping for the new website and helped co-author the test scripts with other project members. Other activities included organising events at conferences, evangelising technology and preparing presentations and tutorials for the wider object-oriented community.

Jul 1998 – Jan 1999 · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

• Railtrack has over 500 different applications that it uses in its business. To provide a history of Y2K compliance testing and a mechanism for future enhancements to applications to be logged, a Configuration Management (CM) system was developed. I worked with a team of consultants to capture this business-critical software and place it into the CM system. The capture process required close co-operation with different business units within Railtrack. The CM software used was called Continuus.
• The VISION system provides the worldwide CSFB bond trading desks with a GUI-based bond and securities lending system that handles all firm financing and matched book activity for the non-US domestic market. VISION was developed with the InterViews toolkit and a proprietary stack-based language implemented in C++ and Sybase to fulfil its functionality. A previous consultant on this project had developed a set of Perl scripts, and Sybase stored procedures to provide the bond reference data conversion necessary for EMU. Working closely with another consultant, I was responsible for testing these scripts to ensure that they performed the data conversion correctly. I also coded some enhancements and improved the documentation provided with the scripts.
• The EPOC system was designed to meet a wide range of point-of-sale functionality for Legal & General insurance products, such as life, pension and general insurance. The system used Object-Oriented Analysis and Design methods and a three-tier architecture consisting of Java, CORBA and Relational Database technologies. My role was to investigate the issues related to mapping objects to the back-end Relational Database server. I reviewed published papers on Object-to-Relational mapping, synthesised the information and wrote an article proposing several solutions that could be used in the mapping process for EPOC.

Jan 1998 – Feb 1998 · 1 mo · Zurich, Switzerland · On-site

• I provided my Object Database performance benchmarking expertise to a project team developing a back-office financial trading system. The performance tests aimed to determine if the system could scale to meet the banks' global trading requirements. The system was developed using GemStone and Smalltalk under UNIX. Working within tight timescales, I provided on-site supervision to two other consultants, ensured that tests were conducted systematically, and wrote the final report for senior management, including key conclusions and recommendations.

Jun 1991 – Dec 1997 · 6 yrs 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

• I was a research scientist within the Systems Architecture Research Centre (SARC) and then the Interoperability Research Centre (IOp) within the Computer Science Department at City, University of London. I published and presented papers at conferences and helped raise the profile of research activities within the department. I also completed my doctoral research, titled "A Systematic Performance Study of Object Database Management Systems," and co-edited my first book, "Object Databases in Practice." I also provided consulting to several companies considering or evaluating Object Database Systems.

Oct 1988 – Feb 1991 · 2 yrs 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

• I worked on several real-time and database projects related to the Reuters Monitor System.
• The first project was an intelligent multiplexer written in RTL/2 running under RSX-11. I was responsible for making enhancements to this system. This often meant using my initiative to arrange meetings with previous developers, booking time on testbeds, etc. I also developed test scripts for the enhancements, and all changes and tests were fully documented for future developers.
• The second project was developed using Ingres, SQL and Pascal under VAX/VMS. I was again asked to clean up the code, ensure that the software met original design specifications and standardise the Graphical User Interface across all application screens. I also developed scripts that enabled a particular version of the system to be correctly built from files managed by a code management system.
• The third project was designed to replace one of the Monitor systems and was developed using Pascal under VAX/VMS. I made some enhancements to the replacement system to continue to operate with the intelligent multiplexers that I had worked with on my first project. I developed test scripts and was again responsible for all testing and documentation.