Samuel Boswell

Personal

The culmination of a human and a high-spec personal computer; Solar powered and biodegradable, but for best results add coffee and chocolate.
Occasionally makes funny whimpering noises.
The human operator exerts a fair amount of cynical wit, facetiousness, and often radical bluntness in his conversational pieces.
Intermittently runs around Reading when everyone else is asleep, and clambers up walls when they're awake.
Prone to jigging along to good music. Daydreams in code and graphs. Rebellious but squishy on the inside.
Occasionally effervescent but mostly quiet.
To ensure lasting use, expose to long hugs and pets by lovely people.
Sometimes mint condition. Free P&P
Warranty not included. May cause some leakage.
Over-uses the :p emoticon.
INTJ-A / RCOAI / CALM

My commonplace book - collected notes, quotes and snippets is at notes.bozzie.org

Want to chat? Email me: [email protected] or book a call or coffee into my calendar.

Professional

Experienced in designing and developing scalable, maintainable and secure web applications
Excellent technical problem-solving skills
Experienced in leading other engineers, building and maintaining an effective engineering team
Developing and improving team coding standards and best practices
Representing the company at events, to clients presentations, and at a board level
Designing, structuring and building large and complex applications to keep them manageable and extensible
Good business awareness - producing new ideas and driving digital products to their full potential
Technical specialisms in web applications, information security, bespoke software, Microsoft stack.
Organising, speaking and moderating events and workshops.

Want to chat? Email me: [email protected] or book some time into my calendar.

Deciphered

Deciphered is a bespoke software and development company offering clear and flexible solutions to your complicated technology problems.

As one of the founding directors, I lead a technical team in delivering:

Technology Consulting
Bespoke Software
Website Creation
High Risk Info-Sec
eCommerce
Web Applications

Learn more at https://www.deciphered.io

Limejump

Limejump is a digital energy platform, operating in the decentralised energy sector. By embracing technology, machine learning algorithms and human trading ability, we deliver renewable resources where demand requires electricity, in sub-second speed. Limejump’s Virtual Power Platform is an aggregation of different types and sizes of flexible energy generation and storage assets, including the largest portfolio of batteries in the United Kingdom.

Our goal is to deliver 100% renewable energy at all times to our customers through the direct real-time connectivity between renewable energy sources, storage flexibility such as batteries and demand response. We use data science and machine learning to fight the impact of climate change, with the ultimate ambition of delivering a sustainable energy future.

Within Limejump, I lead engineering teams scaling Limejump’s world-class asset control capability. This work impacts everything from our IoT device which is attached to energy assets UK-wide, and also our asset control platform in the cloud which safely instructs and protects assets at scale across the grid.

Learn more at https://www.limejump.com

Talks and Workshops

The fifth domain: an introduction to cyber-warfare
Speed up your developers
Pillars of IoT Security
How to pass an interview with me
AI and Deep Learning
Inside the arrow: the hidden infrastructure of IoT
OPSEC basics
Industrial Cyber Defence workshop
Agile workshops
Lego Serious Play workshops

Want to chat? Book me in for a talk or workshop? Email me: [email protected] or book some time into my calendar.

Odds and Ends

Nothing big, just a collection of other stuff on this domain

Notes - collected notes resources and my commonplace book. notes.bozzie.org

∞ - an experiment in minimal page content: ∞

Markov chain based Mittani quote bot: /quotegen

Mood sharing chart: /mood

Node toolbox: /nodes

Doctrine mapping tool: /doctrine

Toybox, a collection of computational playthings: /toybox

Uses

I regularly get messages asking about the specifics of some piece of software or hardware I use. When they do, I send them this page - a collection of notes and links to my usual tooling, software, hardware and clothing.

Editor

Visual Studio Code Able to handle remote coding, docker, terminal (bash, powershell, cmd) as well as nice markdown editing! I use the Solarized dark theme and Hack font with extra glyphs patched in using NerdFonts

VS Code Plugins

Bundled along with VS code, I extend it's usage with:
Beautify
Docker
GitLens
Markdown all in one
Material Icon Theme
Minify
Python
Rest client
Settings sync

WebApps

Notion This is my go-to information hub: notebooks, databases, tracking, sharing, writing. Handling pretty much any content I can throw at it
x.ai An awesome scheduling and meeting planning app using natural language interface. I use this to help buffer and minimise email ping-pong for arranging time face-to-face and for phone calls
Chrome Remote Desktop works across Chromebook and Windows machines
Slack main professional messaging tool
Discord free community based messaging
Keep virtual, shareable sticky notes, with geolocation and time sensitive reminders
Spotify for music, playlists, podcasts
Feedly allows pulling in multiple RSS feeds into one interface
MyFitnessPal aggregator for fitness, diet and weight tracking
Jira project management
Hemingway App for sanity checking writing style

Desktop Apps

Balsamiq - rapid wireframe prototyping
Flux fade out blue light to help circadian rhythm
Stardock Fences desktop icon management tool
GIMP FOSS Graphic/image manipulation tool
Chrome being well embedded in the Google ecosystem, my browser of choice
Outlook / Office etc!

Chrome Extensions

Reddit Enhancement Suite A bunch of tweaks to make reddit a better site
Simplify Gmail Makes gmail look like Inbox(RIP)
uBlock Origin clear up ads and tracking
Dashlane password management
Notion Web Clipper clips content to my reading list in notion

Tech Hardware

Main PC:
CPU: Intel Core i9 10850K
GPU: ASUS GeForce RTX 3070
RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) Corsair Vengeance
Storage: 1TB WD Blue SN550 M.2 PCIe SSD
Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX B560-F
Cooling: Corsair H150i AIO Cooler (3x120mm Fans)
Case: Carbide Series 175R

ThinkPad T14s - my main work laptop
Pixelbook i7 my main personal portable machine.
Quad HD 34" Samsung Monitor
Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard comfortable, ergonomic keyboard thats not too loud to type on.
Logitech G700s
SteelSeries Arctis 7 daily driver headset, very strong wireless and battery life.
Elgato Streamdeck hot keys for my pc, lighting, camera control and timers.
Xbox Elite Series 2 comfortable controller for chilled out game time.
Philips Hue Play light bars bias and ambient lighting behind the monitor.
More information on my desk layout: blog post.

Personal

Pixel 4
Sony WH-1000XM3 Headphones noise cancelling, comfy enough for all day wear
Fitbit Versa 3 alerting from phone, heart rate and activity tracking

More information on my EDC blog post.

Facebook: sboswell

Email

Personal: [email protected]

Deciphered: [email protected]

Limejump: [email protected]

Location

Currently living in Reading, UK