Hi 👋

I’m Sam.

I’m originally from a small town a little bit north of Newcastle, but by this point I think I’ve pretty much lost my accent.

After university I moved North of the Wall to my adopted home city of Glasgow, Scotland - where I’ve been for the last 10+ years now.

My fiancée, Amy, and I currently live a bit west of Glasgow with our small chaos demon golden retriever, Jura ¹ (named for the island and the whisky ).

I’m a big fan of minimalism, so if this site appears a bit spartan it’s by design.

Dev work 💻🐒 Link to heading

I’ve been doing software-adjacent things professionally for a while now across a few different gigs and a pile of different tech .

While I usually start a new project as some kind of “developer”, this usually ends up with me just looking for the nearest broken thing and trying to make it less broken / on fire (code, builds, infra, team dynamics - there’s no shortage of broken stuff to choose from).

I feel pretty lucky that I’ve stumbled into a career where I get paid to solve puzzles - the trade-off is having work stuff spinning away on background threads in my head outside office hours, but that hasn’t been a big issue so far.