Hi! My name is

Glenn!

I am an experienced, pragmatic Solutions Architect that has helped organizations with transformational projects for the last few years. With diverse experience across development and infrastructure, I am passionate about learning new technologies and solving complex problems. I also occasionally develop web applications and write.

    What I do:

  • - Plan complex systems
  • - Try to develop software
  • - Write technical articles
  • - Whiteboard (A LOT)
Hey, It's me!
The opinions on the site are my own based on more than twenty years of misadventures in IT.

    What I like:

  • - Non-technical writing
  • - Reading (mainly SciFi)
  • - Playing games
  • - Hiking and Exploring

Blog Posts

I try to write a post each week, published on a Thursday morning, about things I did the previous week.

Setting up a Redis Cache

Setting up a simple Redis server for local development

Posted May 11, 2021
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Articles

I also write long form technical articles that take a lot longer to develop and write. These cover a range of subjects but are mainly focused on cloud based development and technologies.

Discord Bot Part 5 - Infrastructure as Code

Part 5 of creating a discord bot - deploying infrastructure as code using ARM templates and GitHub Actions

Posted December 3, 2020
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My Projects

Many of my articles are based off bigger personal projects I develop over time. I'm starting to formalize these projects more by publishing them and their change logs here.

The Architect

A discord bot, built in C# using a service orientated architecture and serverless compute

Things I do

People occasionally hire me to do stuff for them.

Solution Architecture

I work with businesses at the start of the project cycle providing technical advice and collecting and refining business requirements, through to the design, prototyping and implementation of complex systems.

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Technical Writing

I product technical content about cloud-based environments, prototyping, service design, application design, implementation of services and technical architectures, primarily using the Azure platform.

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Application development

I use my solution architecture experience to turn ideas into usable web, mobile and desktop applications through .Net application development using .NET Core, HTML, CSS and Javascript.

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