I lead the Open Technologies & Open Innovation group at Avanade, housing our open-source projects office (OSPO), developer relations team, and Avanade ventures (startup enablement, academia, and foundations.)

I'm passionate about technology, believing in the importance of remaining hands-on, not presenting from an ivory tower but taking part in the design, coding, and delivery. Because of this passion, outside Avanade, I contribute code as a Microsoft MVP, and I'm an ambassador for OpenUK - the organisation for Open Technology in the UK.

My team works with organisations as varied as the Green Software Foundation (to reduce the carbon intensity of software), UCL, and the Digital Twin Consortium, supporting software development and creating new standards - the core theme is working out in the open.