Since I could code and tinker with electronics, I have.

Starting with operating system installs to writing my first application in Visual Basic at around age 12, I have had an innate passion for all things tech.

Throughout my teen years I explored all aspects of computing, developing a keen knowledge of everything from power into the machine to user interaction. Each aspect of the technical world presented me with a new avenue to explore, taking a keen interest in Linux.

Then my love of software began… I learnt a wide range of languages, fiddled and built a solid knowledge of software design principals and participated in the open source community - and still do. I also built computers - a lot of them - from budget builds to monster workstations, while later discovering virtualisation and home-labbing.

Next came the beginnings of my early career, starting as an intern in software development at the beginning of 2014. Within a short time, I was promoted from intern to Web Developer then promoted further, into Senior Software Developer. I trained, lead and supported the next generation of excited Junior Developers, driving my ambition through their passion. I lead, managed and developed a rapidly expanding, award-winning product, and delivered the best result for both business and stakeholders.

Taking the NeXT step, I'm now employed as the Lead Software Engineer helping to expand, refine and diversify an impactful product.

Software development is my calling, facilitated by my innate ability to quickly consume, understand and distil information to support others. I also have a strong sense of self-motivation and passion for high-quality software development, always delivering to a progressive personal standard.

In short, I am devoted. I live and breathe any and all things software and hardware and am pretty much interested in anything that has a plug socket on it; opening it up, tinkering around and seeing how it all works. I love the way I can create and let my mind run wild through what is usually a rigid and unforgiving electrical world. But I seem to have a knack for it, I speak its language.

P.S. Yeah the commands don't really work on an actual terminal, but its all a bit of tongue in cheek fun.

I'm pretty active on GitHub and will try to contribute in what ever way I can, no matter the language. I love the Open Source community and what we all stand for. I try to contribute my fair share to make good software available to all. I've learned some invaluable skills by taking this approach and it helps me keep an open mind.

I've done things like implement an entire release pipeline for certain projects to ease the development burden on the maintainer. I've released several packages and applications across multiple languages and platforms (and thats just what is public.) If its not that, then I'll be throwing up Gist's throughout the day with useful code snippets and scripts. Funnily enough both of my favorite scripts on there being related to getting OS images mountable or bootable on macOS, the later being from my days building custom Raspberry Pi images.

Everyone needs to take a break and enjoy life, besides tech, here's how I like to spend mine!

Not quite an archaeological dig and I like to think I've accomplished a lot in the short space of time that I've been on this here blue dot, with plenty more to come! Once developed, this timeline element was PR'd back into the Terminal CSS framework.

In the rare occasion that you'd actually like to get in touch with me, ping me on one of these. I usually go by the handle othyn, if you haven't already guessed.