Education
University of Oxford
, 1988-01-01 - 1996-01-01Work Experience
ConfigHub Inc
Current
ConfigHub Inc
Community
2024-01-01 - 2024-03-01
Community
Weaveworks
2014-07-01 - 2023-12-01
Weaveworks
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
2016-03-01 - 2019-03-01
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Pivotal Software, Inc.
2013-04-01 - 2014-05-01
Pivotal Software, Inc.
VMware
2010-04-01 - 2013-04-01
VMware
Rabbit Technologies Ltd
2009-03-01 - 2010-04-01
Rabbit Technologies Ltd
Cohesive Networks (formerly CohesiveFT)
2006-01-01 - 2009-02-01
Cohesive Networks (formerly CohesiveFT)
Metalogic
2002-02-01 - 2005-12-01
Metalogic
Goldman Sachs
1997-01-01 - 2000-01-01
Goldman Sachs
Skills
Summary
Entrepreneur things: made some products and companies. See below. CEO/cofounder for ConfigHub, Weaveworks, RabbitMQ. Helped set up CNCF and was first chair of TOC. Weaveworks created FluxCD, Cortex, Weave Net and more. Inventor of GitOps, building on much prior art. Led Spring/vFabric/Redis/Rabbit biz at early Pivotal, when a lot changed at once, including invention of Spring Boot and associated cloud/data stacks. Before all this, I was a quantitative trader in Fixed Income Derivatives Trading at Goldman Sachs (Arbitrage desk and Swaps/Bonds desk). Before that I researched and taught mathematical logic and computer science at Oxford University. At one time I was a 2Lt in the RM. Specialties: Execution and strategy at the interface of Business and Technology. Commercial open source. Investment, financing and risk management.