hi there!

welcome to my digital home.

i've been making things on the web professionally for about a decade, working across a range of industries from aviation, to agri-tech & most recently finance.

currently, i'm working as a security engineer, alongside postgraduate study at Abertay University.

work

most of my career so far has been split between full-stack & backend development.

.net is my go-to framework to reach for, but i'm equally comfortable working in typescript & python.

to get things deployed, i now usually work with a combination of aws & terraform, having started off in the world of azure.

education

i believe in lifelong learning, supplementing formal education with constant on job upskilling

i hold a bachelors degree in applied computing from the university of dundee, and i'm currently working towards a masters in ethical hacking & cybersecurity at abertay university.

alongside formal learning, i seek every opportunity to learn new tools and frameworks - having a bigger toolbox allows me to pick the right tool for a given task.

outside of the tech world, i'm a fan of languages. i speak conversational portuguese, and while a bit rusty, i can get by with german.

blog

like a of people, i've had great intentions of starting a blog for years. sadly, i seem to get one or two posts in before life takes over & i forget it exists

i'll be attempting to keep it more upto date this time around, and i suppose we'll all see in a year or so whether i'm successful

you can find it at https://blog.thingsgavdoes.net

projects

i've made a few small projects, mostly in areas i find interesting, or that will help me in my day to day