Hello, I'm Alistair
Hi. I'm a software engineer, currently based in Cardiff. I also do other things, but
they are generally not writing about myself, so this will be both bad and
awkward.
I'm a Software Engineer, currently working at Companies House. Before that I was a software
development apprentice at the BBC, in Archive Technology and Services, and before that I was a child.
While doing the apprenticeship I guess I also technically studied at Glasgow University, but that was
a far more mixed bag which I'd rather not go into. My corporate technical interests have often wound up
being JS frontendy things, at the Beeb I did a lot of React, and at CH I am doing more weird template-based
frontend things.
Outside of work and university I build little software projects, mostly fake
finance applications. I'm enjoying Go these days, indeed this website is
built using
Go's html/template which is
pretty decent. I also sail, I raced RS Fevas and then RS200s recreationally
around Scotland until I went to uni when I did a little team racing. Other
than that I guess I do technically play guitar, but not to any particularly
great skill level.