What do I think about my identity? If you were to ask me "Who are you?" what would I say? I suppose that depends on context. I suppose the first thing is, noticing I have written a page so far, is that I am autistic, and like to info dump. In the context of my neighborhood, I live in that house over there, hidden behind the other one. I am married to an awesome woman, and we have two young adult kids. One struggles with health issues and so lives with us, and one is now off at university and loving it. If you meet me at a track day, which is rare these days, then I'll tell you that I like big, American, rear wheel drive cars with a good suspension setup. Muscle cars that can go around corners. I've owned three mustangs in my life. A '66 V8 convertible, a '07 GT500 and a '16 GT. One of my best track days was in the '16, bone-stock, including the tires. Now I live up in the PNW, a 500rwhp car just seems like a good way to spin out and kill kids, so I've switched to an AWD EV. I do enjoy music. Some of my favorite music is from video games. [Starjump](https://radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/track/starjump) from the [Celeste](https://www.celestegame.com) soundtrack, by Lena Raine, might be my favorite, with the [soundtrack from Manifold Garden](https://laryssaokada.bandcamp.com/album/manifold-garden-original-soundtrack), by Laryssa Okada being a close second. I use [Roon](https://roon.app/en/) around the house and in the garden and you might find me chilling out to The Colour of Spring on Mark Hollis' eponymous solo and final [album](https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/mark-hollis/0073145376882). Yes, video games. Favorite game is easily Horizon Zero Dawn (do not read the plot before you play it), followed by [ICO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ico) and then [ONI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oni_(video_game)). (So thats HZD, ICO, ONI). I love [Celeste](https://www.celestegame.com), but cannot play it. My eldest has summited it. I do have all 120 stars in Mario 64, and my cartridge is autographed by Miyamoto himself. So about video games, that's how my career began. My parents invested in a computer when I was a kid, thinking "these might be big some day". I learned to program, and while I was in college, I wrote my first published video game, [Axis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZUgdfF47vM). That got my a job in the USA, where I've been mostly ever since. I got to work on a game with Shigeru Miyamoto ("with" is doing a lot of work there)! I was the lead programmer for the port of Resident Evil 2 to the Nintendo 64 which is [a whole story](So...%20Resident%20Evil%202%20on%20Nintendo%2064) and people are still making youtube videos about it twenty years later. After a short stint at Neversoft, I joined my college friends in a UK startup, making a game console with an exercise bike built in. Bill Gates demoed it in his 2003 CES keynote. After a decade of video games, I moved on to a high-end graphics application, and then got that working on AWS - being able to rent 250 8-core computers was insane for a startup. I did the obligatory mobile development when the iPhone came out. I'd done startups my whole life, but now having kids, I started to look for more stable environments. I was the lead software architect for Thermo Fisher's cloud initiative and then joined AWS myself, where I work on S3.