I design, develop and deploy code, and I can lead, engage and develop people. I also have a knack for finding problems and then solving them (in that order, which is important). I may over-engineer on the first pass. Simply put, I'm a very useful generalist who makes life better for everyone and everything I'm around.

I’ve been designing, developing, and deploying web applications (and all sorts of web “stuff”) since the late 1990s. I worked in various individual contributor (IC) roles (design/development) until 2016, when I started transitioning into engineering management (EM) roles (senior, lead, head and eventually CTO & CIO). I can do both roles well (or so people tell me) and although they're different in a fundamental way, I experience joy doing both and I'm very competant in either.

In 2022 I left my full time CTO/CIO to start a new venture - Trees & Code. I split my time between techworld (software engineering, data privacy engineering and infosec / privacy consulting) and treeworld (arboriculture and woodland management). In short I'd had a twenty year stretch at a desk with silicon and I wanted to touch the grass. I still do the odd bit of tree work (I'm a qualified arborist and qualified to climb trees with saws and pruners) and spend any spare time I have left in my workshop or my small parcel of semi-ancient woodland. If you ask really nicely, I may come and take care of your trees for a modest fee.

In late 2025 I decided to build a SaaS product - Privacy Posture. However, startups are hard and the odds are stacked against me, so whilst my linked screems "founder founder founder" that's just show boating. I'm open to work. I'm most likley interested in positions where I'm leading people and collaborating accross the organisation. In small startups that's called CTO, in larger orgs it's more likely a team lead or engineering manager. I'm not hung up on titles.

I am on a credential aquistion exercise and right now I'm studying to get my CIPP/E qualification. I'm into privacy (always have been) and learned enough from the last few years consulting and my time at SoPost to see the disconnect in privacy tooling for developers and small businesses. I may be one of the few humans that likes to read law and standards.

If you want to chat, drop me an email to [email protected].

You can find out more about me on my personal website or go subscribe to my new code orientated substack - Tree Jamie. If you want to read about my time in treeworld, go subscribe to Life of Treedom.