I design, develop and deploy code, and I can lead, engage and develop people. I also have a knack for finding problems and then solving them (in that order, which is important). I may over-engineer on the first pass. Simply put, I'm a very useful generalist who makes life better for everyone and everything I'm around.
I’ve been designing, developing, and deploying web applications (and all sorts of web “stuff”) since the late 1990s. I worked in various individual contributor (IC) roles (design/development) until 2016, when I started transitioning into engineering management (EM) roles (senior, lead, head and eventually CTO & CIO). I can do both roles well (or so people tell me) and although they're different in a fundamental way, I experience joy doing both.
In 2022 I took a few years away from techworld to go and study arboriculture and woodland management. I also own a woodland, which I manage myself using my newly learned skills. I do the odd bit of tree work (I'm a qualified arborist) and spend any spare time I have left in my workshop. If you ask really nicely, I may come and take care of your trees for a modest fee.
In early 2025 I returned to the techword hoping to get job in IC/EM so I could spend my time between the woods and a desk job. However, somewhere between 2022 and 2025 hiring became silly and I found it really hard to get a job. "Thanks but no thanks, and no reasons" was the norm so in late 2025 I took that as a chance to become a founder of my thing - Privacy Posture.
If you want to chat, drop me an email to jamie@curle.io.
You can find out more about me on my personal website or go subscribe to my new code orientated substack - Tree Jamie. If you want to read about my time in treeworld, go subscribe to Life of Treedom.