🖖 Hello and welcome. I'm a tech lead/enthusiast based in Wales, UK. My main interests are indie and open-source projects, web and mobile technologies, serverless, IoT and automation.
I'm taking part in the 100 Days to Offload challenge in 2021.
Read more about it and see what I've written so far for this challenge.
💡 Since 2016 I have been Chief Technology Officer at enterprise SaaS company Simply Do Ideas . Before this I was a software engineer at Chaser .
🎓 I completed my PhD at Cardiff University 's School of Computer Science & Informatics in 2015.
🤓 I worked on the IBM-led UK MoD and US Army Research Labs coalition ITA project as a postdoctoral research associate.
👨🏫 I lectured the Advanced Computer Science MSc module Web & Social Computing and the Computer Science BSc module Human-Computer Interaction .
📝 I write about technology and things I find interesting on my blog ( RSS feeds available).
📔 I maintain a collection of notes (Recently updated: Plain Text Accounting).
🚀 I publish additional content on my geminispace at gemini://wilw.capsule.town (see this post for help with opening this link).
👨💻 Some of my research publications are available here.
📦 I work on and maintain a number of projects.
🪴 Find out more about this website and its purpose.
You can follow me on Mastodon (📣 @wilw@fosstodon.org ) and Pixelfed (🖼️ @wilw@pixelfed.social ).
You can also get in touch on Matrix (@wilw:matrix.wilw.dev ) and Telegram (@wilw88 ).
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