👋 About Me

In my career, I have always found myself in FinTech in the Data Engineering space. Currently I am a Staff Analytics Engineer, where I work on data platforms, performance optimisation, and mentoring analytics teams. I have also worked as a teacher, and I like to bring elements from this experience in my tech career to help others grow and become effective developers. Before that, I studied Physics at Cambridge University (Jesus College), which gave me a foundation I still draw on today.

👨‍💻 Technical Interests

Whilst my day job focuses on data engineering, I spend a lot of my free time on platform engineering and DevOps. I enjoy creating CI/CD pipelines, experimenting with Docker, and tinkering with various Linux distros.

I’m a terminal enthusiast - there’s something satisfying about command-line solutions that GUIs just can’t match. You’ll often find me spending hours of my own time perfecting my NeoVim setup, or just starting from scratch when I get bored of how everything looks!

In my personal projects, my current focus is building a personal finance automation system that pulls data from my bank, processes it through DuckDB, transforms it with SQLMesh (which is slowly winning the heart of a dbt fan-boy), and visualises everything in Streamlit.

🏔️ Beyond Tech

My curiosity extends to several areas:

• Physics and general science topics
• Languages and linguistics
• Philosophy and comparative religion
• History and cultural studies

I keep close tabs on AI and LLM developments, often testing new models as they emerge. I maintain several pro subscriptions (to the dismay of my bank balance) to explore cutting-edge capabilities - partly for practical reasons, but also because I enjoy discovering new possibilities but also pushing boundaries!

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”