Neil has become one of the UK’s leading thinkers about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and its implications. His work challenges the high-priesthood of Important Grey Men who refer to people as “resources”, and who believe debt is bad for government and good for you. Neil dreams of a world where everyone who wants a living wage job can find one, close to their home, their friends and their family.

- Design and build of highly distributed public cloud computing architecture and infrastructure.- Interview and selection of staff in person and via video conference.- Project Management, coordination and delivery using Agile techniques, via remote workers across multiple timezones in a DevOps environment.- Working with third party teams to get Brightbox Cloud drivers integrated into their products. - Container implementation, Docker, rkt, LXC- Cloud driver development for Kubernetes, Docker-machine and Terraform- Integration with Kubernetes and OpenStack- Development in Go, Ruby, Python, Shell, C- Automation- Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Git, Github - Continuous Integration - Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI- Orchestration- Kubernetes, Flint, Deis, JuJu- Automated service design - Haproxy, Nginx, MySQL, Postgres, CockroachDB- Upstream fault management with RedHat and Canonical- Network design and integration- Advice and assistance on R&D finance, VAT and budgets

Various Ventures operates my consultancy and development businesses. We operate as the name suggests, using our expertise in various fields and on various projects. Variety is the spice of life.