Hello, I’m Kerry
I’m a software developer based in Cheshire, UK. I’ve been writing code professionally for over 18 years, mostly in the .NET ecosystem, though I’m currently picking up Ruby on Rails as part of my day job.
As a child, when it was too cold to go outside and do something more interesting, I messed around with Sinclair Spectrums - briefly the ZX81, then the good old rubber keys 48K. Before I got into software professionally, I spent over a decade as an electrical engineer, mostly at British Steel. That background still shapes how I approach problems - I think of debugging code the same way I used to trace faults in industrial control systems.
These days I lead a small team building software for the UK holiday park industry. I get particular satisfaction from making slow things fast - there’s something deeply rewarding about taking a system that grinds to a halt and making it fly.
I’m married with two young girls. When we’re not at home in Cheshire, we’re either visiting family in Scotland or on a ferry to France or the Netherlands for a holiday. I’ve recently got back into cycling after a long break, and I enjoy tinkering with home automation (Home Assistant runs most of my house), mechanical keyboards, and finding ways to automate the tedious bits of daily computing. I’ve had a blog in some form for about 20 years but never really written much - this is me having another go.