I have made my living as a software developer for the best part of 30 years.
I've worked for a national newspaper, an independent music distributor, a couple of different ISPs, a data marketplace startup, several research-funded survey organisations and a research datacentre.
On this journey I've picked up a full stack of skills, can turn my hand to pretty much anything technological.
I've also done a lot of data work. I was one of the original group of contributors to OpenStreetmap. I sat on the first boards of the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
I co-wrote an O'Reilly book, "Mapping Hacks", published 2005.
I'm a 2025 Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute. You can watch me on a panel at the Open Source Hardware Association in 2025, speaking about my Fellowship theme of applying research software principles to hardware. I had over-ambitious and open-ended plans for workshops, but have been able to use some of the attached fund to support other people...
I'm thinking about the future now.