About
For over 18 years I’ve designed and developed business-critical software, SaaS platforms, integrations, and automation systems across the marketing, payment, education, asset management, and business safety sectors.
My background is rooted in full-stack Microsoft development with a strong focus on database architecture, APIs, middleware, automation, and scalable business systems. I enjoy solving complex technical problems and designing practical, maintainable solutions that continue to evolve with the businesses using them.
Today my work spans modern .NET development, distributed services, API integrations, frontend applications, SQL Server optimisation, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. I currently work with technologies including .NET 8, Aspire, React, Node.js, Tailwind, Entity Framework, SQL Server, Azure DevOps, and modern AI tooling such as Claude Code and Copilot.
While AI is rapidly changing software development, I see it as an accelerator rather than a replacement for experienced engineering. Delivering reliable systems still depends on strong architecture, technical judgement, performance analysis, maintainability, and understanding real business requirements.
My experience includes:
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SaaS platform development
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database and API design
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SQL Server optimisation and profiling
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middleware and integration platforms
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automation and data processing systems
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payment gateway integrations
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AI-assisted development workflows
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frontend and backend application development
Experimental Corner
A quick zero-code AI experiment:
a playable Snake clone generated entirely from prompts.
Unlike the rest of this site, this one was built
without writing the code manually.
[ Launch Snake ]
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Below is a little history throughout my working life and some personal hobbies information.
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January 2018 - Feb 2021.
ZeroOne Database Marketing Ltd (now 8848)
A dynamic, receptive and responsive ethical marketing company. What a breath of fresh air.
If you have problems understanding the data that you have, and how you can use it, then have a chin wag with one of the team and they will help point out some of the targets you should expect to obtain.
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May 2016
Premier Software Solutions
Merged multiple development branches of a webforms product, resolved over 150 feature/bug tickets and developed 3 new payment plans, receipt editing, Dropbox export and a new subscription plan manager and deployed all updates (C#, CSS, HTML, JS, Jquery, SQL, IIS). My role then moved to the online booking system developing web methods in C#, php, web api to SAAS end points, involving database design and new payment gateway processing.
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July 2015
Zeel Solutions Ltd
I returned to Zeel feeling inspired after talking with their new lead developer who loved elegent software patterns, only to find that two weeks after joining he was moving on.
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January 2015
Card Room Enterprises
I originally started as a C# winforms developer for poker tournament software with some occasional overtime required for support, 6 months in and my role had turned into a full time technical support providing 24/7 cover, little or no development time and receiving 2am support calls, I am still grateful to have been offered a position back at Zeel Solutions, so I worked my notice and moved on.
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October 2014
Zeel Solutions Ltd
After an interview that I felt I had blown, I had only had 4 proper interviews so it was not something that I'd become skilled at but I was given a Junior software development position, long hours but rewarding when solutions were found. Little did I know I was about to be thown some bait
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May 2009
Graduation and employment
I Graduated from Wolverhampton University with a first class degree in Computer Science (Games development). I handed my final project in on the Friday 8th May and started work at Pebble Learning on Monday the 11th May. No rest for the wicked!
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July 2007
NMBS - University placement
I was successfull in finding a role with the National Merchant Buying Society to build on an existing content managment website in asp. Here I learnt both procedural and object coding but I also gained real world experience of how projects in a large company were started and seen through to the end when multiple departments are involved.
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July 2004
Part time work - SignFORM Ltd
I had left a previous part time job due to being sent out on late deliveries and this caused me to miss some lectures so I managed to find some great work with a local sign company. This worked well as many of the jobs were repetative so I could think about the lecture notes whilst working, win win!
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July 2004
UT 2004 DM-Toys-Story
A good friend asked me to create a game level of his house, by now I understood about scale, BSP objects, static meshes, UV co ordinates and UVW Unwrap tools so after some thought I gave it a shot. more …
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Sept 2003
Wolverhampton University
With my evening study as a qualifier I enrolled on a BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Games Development) course, I was confident at first but soon realised that there was a huge learning curve ahead.
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Sept 2000
Began evening studies with Photoshop and 3D Studio Max
I signed up for evening classes at Smethwich College to learn about image processing and 3D Studio Max as I wanted the ablity to create my own world objects and texture maps in game editors.
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Sept 1999
Level editing
Unreal tournament was released on PC and it came with a level editor, even though it was hugely buggy I don't say this very often due to its stigma but, OMG! I think I lost a few months of my life with the Unreal Editor
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April 1991
Computa Bitz was born
Having worked on Saturday and Sunday markets for 2 years whilst at school, in May 1991 the opportunity arose to purchase the stall I was working on selling games. With a £1500 loan and plenty of time on my hands Computa Bitz was born, I was about to solve a huge problem I had 3 years previous when buying games for my Amstrad cpc 464
