I'm Chris, a 33 year old C# software engineer in London, concentrating mainly on the database middleware side of software - CRUD and web applications. Engineer makes me sound more regal and intelligent than I actually am, but I have been writing C# since around the second beta [2002] and like to feel that's my specialisation in the software industry. I graduated from UWE in Bristol in 2001, with a media related degree.
I'm now making up for this with a remote-learning degree (Open University) in Computing, which concentrates on Java. My programming experience prior to the UWE degree involved writing DOS applications in Norton, public domain applications on an Amstrad CPC 6128 (the one with the disk drive), and before that BBC Bs. The last two were BASIC, I didn't have the "pleasure" of doing assembly programming. I've had a fair amount of experience with Perl/PHP/Linux/MySQL/Bash (LAMP before it was coined) and also VB, before trying to concentrate solely on C#. I've always been database and web focused, though 2 years were spent writing windows forms applications in C# and bits of interop/COM as you always end up doing with winforms and C#.
I'm married with a 2 year old daughter but you can find me still playing online games (mostly Battlefield 3 right now) or running on a treadmill to train for 10Ks. If you're interested beyond this little profile, try last.fm, steam, twitter, add me on BF3 as I'm a Billy no-mates. There's also my CV. Feel free to email me.
I've got several open source projects that you can find on Bitbucket and Codeplex.
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." Martin Fowler
