About Me

• I grew up in Sheffield, UK
• I studied BSc Mathematics & Computing at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• I currently work at the BBC as software engineer for BBC News Labs
• I previously worked as Community Manager and Technical Programme Manager at the Raspberry Pi Foundation
• I created and maintain open source projects such as GPIO Zero, piwheels and pyjokes
• I’m a columnist for opensource.com (a community project run by Red Hat) and a member of their correspondent programme
• In 2018 I was awarded the John Pinner Award for services to the Python community
• I also previously worked as a web & software developer at Magma Digital, NCC Group and OH Digital