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

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

Professional

Experienced in designing and developing scalable, maintainable and secure web applications
Excellent technical problem-solving skills
Experienced in leading other developers and maintaining an effective development team
Developing and improving team coding standards and best practices
Representing the company at events, presentations, and board level
Designing, structuring and building large and complex applications to keep them manageable and extensible
Interviewing developers of all levels and building productive development teams
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.

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

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:

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

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

Device Authority

Seamless end-to-end Security for every IoT Ecosystem.

Device Authority is simplifying the security challenges that organisations face when protecting access to services and data for the Internet of Things.

Our patented dynamic key generation technology provides a strong, device-based trust anchor for automated, scalable IoT identity and secure data delivery.

We solve mission-critical IoT security problems, including provisioning and authorisation, device basedaccess control, software and firmware updates, credential management and data delivery over their party networks and services.

As Engineering Manager: leading the engineering team in an agile process, ensuring the team ship high-quality software efficiently and on a predictable schedule. Representing the engineering organisation to the leadership team, and aligning engineering’s goals with the rest of the company’s goals. Engineer-whisperer.

Learn more at https://www.deviceauthority.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 a call or coffee.

Odds and Ends

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

∞ - an experiment in minimal page content: ∞

Markov chain based Mittani quote bot: /quotegen

Mood sharing chart: /mood

Node toolbox: /nodes

Toybox, a collection of computational playthings: /toybox

Uses

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
MS Teams main professional messaging tool
Discord free community based messaging
Keep virtual, shareable sticky notes, with geolocation and time sensitive reminders
Google Play Music
Feedly allows pulling in multiple RSS feeds into one interface
MyFitnessPal aggregator for fitness, diet and weight tracking
Jira project management
Site24x7 cost-effective site and application monitoring
Hemingway App

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
LastPass password management
Notion Web Clipper clips content to my reading list in notion

Tech Hardware

Main PC:
GPU: Quadro RTX 6000
VRAM: 24 GB
CPU: Intel Xeon W-3235 Processor
CPU Clock Speed: 4 GHz - 6 cores
RAM: 32 GB
Storage: 2 x 1TB SSD

Dell Latitude 7570 (16 gig ram) - my main work laptop
Pixelbook i7 my main personal portable machine.
Microsoft MS4000 Keyboard hardy, ergonomic keyboard that can take a battering.
Logitech G700s
SteelSeries Arctis 7 daily driver headet, very strong wireless and battery life.

Personal

Pixel 4
Sony WH-1000XM3 Headphones noise cancelling, comfy enough for all day wear
Fitbit Charge 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]

Device Authority: [email protected]

Location

Currently living in Reading, UK