I studied Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield where I drank too much Hobgoblin, danced to the Arctic Monkeys, built anomaly detection using Robust PCA, learnt far too much about smart washing machines and fuzzy logic, and occasionally picked up some programming.

In 2017 I moved to London for BAE Systems, building software that, as a colleague liked to say, "stops bad people doing bad things". From there I joined NearSt, a tiny startup where I discovered serverless and how it lets small teams punch above their weight. My boss Adam introduced me to Epsagon, and I was hooked on observability. We built systems processing hundreds of millions of stock updates daily.

That obsession led me to Baselime, where I spent a year with Boris Tane trying to build the perfect blend of Epsagon and Honeycomb. We sweated the details and built something pretty damn sweet.

Then Cloudflare invited us to their London office. Meeting Rita, Ben, Matt, Sid and others, it was clear there was a bigger mission here. Shipping at startup speed inside a company this size has been the hardest and most rewarding challenge yet.