Conferences

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Conference talks, webinars and speaking engagements.

Event	Location	Topic	Links
AI Native DevCon London 2026	London, June 2026	Bipolar Disorder, Dysregulation & AI	Talk · Short
NearForm ImpactTalks 2026	Online, February 2026	Copilot isn’t a strategy – Agentic Engineering vs Agentic Software	Recording
DevOpsDays Jakarta 2018	Jakarta, April 2018	The Universe As Code	SpeakerDeck
JPMC DevOps Event	Singapore, April 2018
Serverless Summit 2017	Bangalore, October 2017	Build a Chatbot in 10 Minutes	SpeakerDeck
DevOpsDays Singapore 2017	Singapore, 2017	Monoliths to Microservices – Practical Tips for CI/CD and DevOps	Video · SlideShare · SpeakerDeck
McKinsey DevOps Days 2017	Amsterdam, 2017	Breaking Monoliths – Moving a Bank from Monoliths to Microservices
JSChannel 2016	Bangalore, 2016	Effective Node.js Debugging	YouTube

About

Sat, 03 May 2014 14:59:27 +0000

I’m a technology expert working at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey in London.

My journey started with C and C++, writing device drivers, then moved through .NET and a little F#, into JavaScript and Node.js/TypeScript, with Python along the way. Plenty of bash, spit and glue, vim and tmux. For most of my time at McKinsey and QuantumBlack I have been building cloud-native distributed systems, mainly for financial institutions. Nowadays it’s a tonne of AI.

GitHub | LinkedIn

Selected Publications

Effective Shell – No Starch Press, 2025
Seizing the agentic AI advantage – McKinsey & Company, 2025
Agentic AI: Moving beyond pilots to enterprise impact – McKinsey & Company, 2025

Selected Projects

Hacker Laws – Laws, theories, principles and patterns for developers
Effective Shell – Text and samples for my Effective Shell book
terminal-ai – Unopinionated AI for the Shell. A lightweight AI CLI for scripts, pipelines, and automation, with a universal client for MCP, A2A, and other AI protocols.
dotfiles – My personal setup: Vim, Tmux, Shells
claude-toolkit – Claude Code plugins toolkit for various engineering tasks
claude-code-agent – Run Claude Code as an isolated and containerized A2A agent
SharpShell – Create Windows Shell Extensions using .NET
SharpGL – Use OpenGL in .NET applications

Conference Presentations

AI Native DevCon London: Bipolar Disorder, Dysregulation & AI – 2026
The Changelog: Laws for hackers to live by – Podcast, 2020
VoxxedDays Singapore: What does DevOps culture mean for engineers? – 2018
DevOpsDays Jakarta: The Universe as Code – 2018
Serverless Summit: Build a chatbot in ten minutes – 2017
DevOpsDays Singapore: Microservices to Monoliths – 2017
JSChannel: Effective Node Debugging – 2016

Education

Degree in Natural Sciences (Chemistry, Physics & Mathematics) – University of Cambridge.
I did a tonne of Microsoft certifications years ago, some MongoDB stuff and others.

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