About me

šŸ‘‹ Aloha, I'm Kit #

Shaka on Mauna Kea
Me at the top of Mauna Kea

Iā€™m married with a baby girl, and two cats. We live in North-East England.

I grew up in the countryside, which inspired my masters degree in Geoscience. My Digital journey started with networking learnt working in Oil & Gas before moving into Financial Services where I supported Cyber Security engagements.

I moved into a product role in the public sector at the end of 2019 starting in Networking, before moving into Microsoft 365 and now within Platform Engineering and Developer Tooling. I help product teams deliver faster and safer by managing the internal platform - code hosting, continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD), artefact storage and the engineering tools they rely on to build software. The platform is large scale and high leverage, allowing the higher level product teams to focus on solving citizen problems.

View my resume

šŸ“¦ Product #

Check out my product page to learn about my product journey and discover my philosophy and pillars.

āœļø Blog #

Read my blog for thoughts on:

  • Building a personal website
  • My projects
  • Product management
    • Internal
    • Public sector
  • Technology

šŸ¤” The purpose of my blog is to write my thoughts. Pretty simple, but thinking and writing are critical skills. If it can help me engage interests, be more creative and learn new skills then I'll be happy. In the future who knows I might start a focussed blog or newsletter.

šŸ‘Øā€šŸ’» Side projects #

Check out my personal projects for examples of how I'm exploring and developing my technical skills.

šŸ§° Toolkit #

What's in my toolkit:

šŸ’» Devices #

  • MacBook Air
  • iPad Pro
  • Raspberry Pi 4

šŸ§  Services & tools #

  • GitHub
  • GitHub Copilot
  • ChatGPT
  • Visual Studio Code

šŸŒ Web stack #

  • Eleventy
  • Netlify
  • HTML / CSS / SCSS / JavaScript (only a little JavaScript)
  • Markdown
  • Pagefind
  • Playwright

šŸ Programming #

  • Python (learning)

Note

For more detail on the tech stack used to build this site, see the colophon.

šŸŖ© Fun #

āš½ Newcastle United šŸ–¤ šŸ¤

ā›³ I don't play or practice enough but there's something about the challenge of improving that I love.

šŸŽæ Started skiing at 6 years old in Canada, also skied in Switzerland, Norway, France and Italy.

šŸŽ® I mainly play sport games, not played much since becoming a Dad and spending spare time on tech projects.

šŸ¤™ Hang loose and take care