About Me
Hello, my name is Mike but most people just call me by my surname. Anyone over a certain age assumes I sell shoes for a living. I don’t, but it’s good to have a backup plan.
I’m a Software Engineer by trade, but I’m keenly interested in technology as a whole. I started coding at the ripe old age of 12. I used to enjoy text based games and wanted to create one for myself - so I taught myself the LAMP stack. That’s a somewhat dated term now, but it put me in good stead for the rest of my career. Apache became Nginx, MySQL became MariaDB (though I use PostgreSQL), PHP became literally anything else. I tend to use Python or Go in my spare time or when building prototypes. My day job mostly has me writing “production quality” Java, though lately I’ve been writing a lot more Kotlin and C++.
Despite being from the UK I enjoy watching American Football and support the Dallas Cowboys. I played on the O-line when I was at university, so unlike a certain shoe salesman, I never scored four touchdowns in a game.
In my spare time I enjoy listening to the Economist Podcasts, tinkering with my home server, and trying to get Arduinos to automate parts of my home.
You can email me at mike@bundy.dev