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Senior .NET & Azure Engineer
18+ years' experience delivering production systems across development, infrastructure, and cloud
Every November, .NET Conf brings a new major release of .NET. If you have been building on the platform since the early 2020s, you have watched the ecosystem move from “.NET Core” to a single, unified .NET — and pick up minimal APIs, Native AOT, Blazor full stack, Aspire, and a steady stream of C# language improvements...
Sadly earlier this year I was made redundant from my Software Developer job. Looking for a new job has not been fun, but a few common themes have emerged that I wanted to share. My hope is that these will help others to put things in place that may help them in the future. Go to events and meet people Something I have...
If you have ever tried to rewatch Star Trek properly—not just dip into a favourite episode, but work through hundreds of instalments across multiple series—you will know the feeling. You pause Deep Space Nine for a few weeks, start something else, and suddenly you have no idea which episode you were on. Spreadsheets...
There is no shortage of AI tools aimed at developers right now: chat assistants, IDE completions, agents that promise to run your tests, and new products every month with overlapping features. I am not going to argue which one is “best.” Instead, here is what I am actually using today on hobby code: ChatGPT for quick,...
Introduction – The Shift We are Living Through As I write this, I have just been made redundant. AI is not being used to explain this particular redundancy, but it is being used to explain many redundancies across the industry. I just got laid off..... Again...... I am still in shock. I loved my new job and was...
As someone who works with both Azure and AWS regularly, I’ve had hands-on experience with both Azure Container Registry (ACR) and AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR). Recently, while migrating my blog’s deployment pipeline to use ECR, I encountered some interesting differences that are worth sharing. The Basics Both...
For the second year running, I had the privilege of volunteering at NDC London – one of Europe’s premier software development conferences. This year’s event was packed with insights on AI, accessibility, testing automation, and the future of software development. If you’re interested in my first experience, check out...
2025 in Review What a year 2025 has been! I published 24 blog posts covering a wide range of topics from cloud-native technologies to AI experiments, and even some personal reflections. Here are the key themes and highlights from my blogging year: Cloud-Native and DevOps This was a major focus area for me in 2025, not...