Who am I?

Michael, Mike for short. I live and work in Manchester, UK. InfoSec & Compliance by day, Karate by night (and most weekends).

Work

Peak AI

Empowering developers and data scientists to be more autonomous, self-sufficient, secure while building on the Peak platform - The Cloud-based AI System for the Enterprise.

Certification

Previously 7x AWS certified (Security Specialty, DevOps Engineer Professional, Solutions Architect Associate + Professional, Developer + SysOps Associate, Cloud Practitioner), along with some other Linux and Cyber Security professional certifications (LPIC-1, COMPTIA Linux+ & CySA+).

Play

Karate

Karate instructor, instructor assessor, coach, England squad member, former captain & treasurer, 5th Dan black belt.

Tech

There are a few experimental projects that I’ve done, usually to learn new things. I like to present tech-talks and rehash them into blog articles.

Music

A wannabe musician - mostly stringed instruments like guitar, or ukelele.