About.

I first stepped into IT in 1982, and by 1985 I was running the fidonet.org ↔ Internet gateway — one of the main routes by which email and echomail reached the UK and Europe's bulletin board scene — while trading at the Birmingham Stock Exchange by day. Four decades later I'm still doing fundamentally the same job: keeping the packets flowing and building things that stay up.

Along the way: Demon Internet through the dial-up boom, real-money trading systems at Interactive Investor, fourteen data centres across nine countries at Redbus Interhouse, and eighteen years growing my own ISP, Fido.Net, from twenty customers to thousands before selling it in 2019. A spell of attempted retirement produced a restored boat and the realisation that I can't stay out of infrastructure. These days FXRM runs UK-owned hosting and ships tools for mail operators, and Amperlo — the current startup — gives EV drivers honest numbers about what their cars really cost.

The full forty-year story is here, and the projects page shows what we've shipped recently.