I've had a slightly unusual career path - after university (MPhys and PhD in Physics) I went into software development in aerospace and defence. While there I took a step to the side to manage the data warehouse when a vacancy came up and I found my niche - data!

From there I went to a fintech startup where I spent 4 1/2 great years building out the data lake from scratch, but as the company grew the so did the role and it no longer fit what I wanted to do.

I started at Cloudsmith in early 2025 as the data team was expanding.