“Now” pages are inspired by Derek Sivers. They attempt to answer the question: “What is this person focused on at this exact point in their life?” Whist all the masses of information here and elsewhere tell you what I’ve done, they don’t tell you what I’m doing now, what I’m going to do, nor what’s important to me. You can find hundreds of examples of these (including mine) on nownownow.com.

Last Updated: December 2025.

What am I doing now?

• I’m currently living in Newbury, Berkshire, UK, and married now for 31 years. My youngest daughter - now 30 ffs - is back with us after splitting with her partner, so myself and the missus lost our empty nesters status. I also lost my beautiful home office and tidy house at the same time.

• I’ve been running my own company, Cloud Cauldron, as a consultant cloud architect / devops engineer / platform engineer since 2017. My current contract is with Indicium AI where I’m currently focusing on AWS, Azure, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, Python based Lambda, and all aspects of AI/ML and Data tooling. I’d like to go permanent for a while but it’s a case of finding both a good company, and a company that wants to pay me as much as I’d like.

• We’re still enjoying our new-ish car - a 2025 Kia Sportage GT-Line S with every bell and whistle. This thing feels like my reward for all the hard work from my entire life. Every evil manager, every late night work session, every callout, and all the working weekends.

• My focus at this point in life (I’m 52 years old), is the missus. Every day I feel time taking a bite of me and I don’t know if I’ll be here 10 years down the road, so, I want to spend time with her and go on adventures more than anything else. We visited the family in Texas this previous summer, spend a couple of days in Nashville Tennessee, went to the Grand Ole Opry, had a tour of the Jack Daniels distillery, and just got back from our annual trip to London to see the Christmas lights and do some shopping.

What am I reading?

• Enshittification - Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, by Cory Doctorow

What am I learning?

In my industry, you can’t stop learning. Ever. At the moment I’m working through this to keep myself fresh and entertained:

• Techworld With Nana’s DevSecOps Bootcamp

And when I find a bit of spare time:

• A Hands-on Deep Dive into AWS Auth and Kubernetes