Not every chapter ends the way you expect. After three intense months at Zupa, I was just getting into my stride when circumstances outside of my control changed everything ... The company was facing difficult times and had to make some tough decisions. Their new product was put on hold, and

When I first arrived at Zupa, my first assignment wasn’t a small bug fix or a safe starter project. I was thrown straight into the deep end: refactoring the very manual process of deploying a critical microservice called Data. It wasn’t just clunky — it was burning hours of

Every engineer has that moment where they stare at a system and think, “Why are we doing it this way?” For me at Zupa, that moment came when I opened their deployment pipelines. At first glance, they worked fine — but the deeper I looked, the more I saw a maze

After six years at Navigator, I stepped into my first official role as a DevOps engineer. This was the start of a whole new chapter — and where things really started to get interesting. This was a fully remote role; I worked under the head of infrastructure and IT; Joe along

After six incredible years at DMS Navigator, I knew it was time to take the next step. I’d grown from a junior developer tinkering with VB.NET, to leading teams, driving cloud adoption, and building automation that shaped the way we worked. But deep down, I felt the pull

When Covid-19 hit, everything changed. Overnight, the routine I’d had for four years — commuting into the office every weekday, seeing colleagues face to face, solving problems together — was replaced by working alone at home. During my career at DMS navigator the Covid 19 pandemic hit, we were then all

When I first started at DMS Navigator, everything lived on-premise in a local data centre. I was data centre trained, had the keys, and would often spend time patching and maintaining physical servers. But as the industry shifted, I knew we needed to explore the cloud — and that decision set

Sometimes careers accelerate in unexpected ways. After just over a year at DMS, our development manager moved on to a new opportunity. That left a huge gap — and somehow, I found myself stepping into his boots I hadn’t expected it, but when opportunity knocks, you either step up or

Let’s start with the 6-year journey in the Sheffield role as a junior developer at a company known at the time as Dealer Management Services LTD Under the wing of; Development Manager Gary, Managing Director Simon and his daughter Leanne. I started my real journey into software... Attending their

After my time in software development at West Notts College, I took some time to reflect. I wondered if tech was really the right path for me — so I decided to try something completely different: mechanical engineering. This was hands on mechanical engineering working with machines and CAD Cam software

Because of my low grades at school, I couldn’t go straight into a Level 3 course. Instead, I had to start with Level 2 Software Development at West Notts College. At the time, it felt like a setback — but in reality, it gave me the chance to catch up,

I wasn’t exactly the model student. In fact, I spent most of my school years being a nuisance — rarely paying attention in class, constantly in trouble, and at one point even getting excluded. But while I didn’t thrive in the traditional classroom, I found my spark elsewhere: in

Ever since I was little, I’ve been technically minded — always tinkering, building, and imagining new ideas. While most kids were out playing football, I was taking apart electronics to see how they worked. At 9 years old, I built my first PC from scratch, and that single moment of