• Degree in Chemistry, Oxford University.
• Former A+ PC Technician, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Microsoft Certified SQL Server DBA.
• Former Business Information Architect.
• Qualified Accountant Technician and business owner.
• Pythonista and Python Test Engineer
• AI Agents, Langchain, Langgraph and other frameworks.
• Django, Flask, Docker.
• Experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, React, Vue, Web Components, Node.
• Talks and workshops given at PyCons, WordCamps, MeetUps and NDC. VIEW SPEAKING

• 🌐 https://pytest-cookbook.com
• 📫 [email protected]
• 🖥️ https://www.youtube.com/@iwswordpress/featured

pytest-cookbook.com

https://ai-powered-knowledge-systems.netlify.app/

https://django-fullstack-testing.netlify.app/

PyTest Full Stack Repo

Udemy Course: Pytest Cookbook - Using hooks to create plugins

I volunteer at Codebar.io in Brighton.

• DjangoConEurope April 2025: Implementing Agentic AI solutions in Django from scratch - 90 minute workshop.

• Brighton Py Feb 2025: AI as API in everyday Python apps - 60 minute talk and demo.

• Django Japan Congress Feb 2025 (online): Implementing Agentic AI solutions in Django from scratch - 45 minute talk.

• Conf42 Feb 2025 (online): Implementing Agentic AI Solutions in Python from scratch - 50 minute talk.

• PyCon Ireland Nov 2024: Getting started with Pytest - 2 hr workshop.

Next...

• AI Agents in the Data Pipeline - 90 minute workshop. Awaiting to be announced.

• TALK: Offline and instant websites, aka Progressive Web Apps - AsyncJS, Brighton, September 2021.

• LIGHTNING TALK: WordPress as a Micro Service to any framework - WordFest, July 2021.

• TALK: WP REST API and Web Components => 100% Internet - WordCamp Santa Clarita, July 2021.

• TALK: Web Components in WP, Gutenberg and as HTML plugins. - WordCamp North East Ohio May 2021.

• TALK: Leveraging the power or the WordPress REST API - WP Leeds April 2021

• WORKSHOP: WP REST API and you -> Best Friends Forever workshop (90 mins) - WordCamp Greece April 2021. Code: https://github.com/iwswordpress/WordCampGreece.

• WORKSHOP: Progressive Web Apps Workshop (3hrs) - NDC 2021 Online (PAID) .

• WORKSHOP: Web Components Workshop (3hrs) - NDC 2021 Online (PAID).

• TALK: Web Components as Micro Apps - NDC London, Jan 2021

• TALK: Unifying frameworks with Web Components - Brighton AsyncJS, Nov 2020.

• WORKSHOP: Progressive Web Apps Workshop (2hrs) - NDC Oslo June 2020.

• WORKSHOP: Web Components Workshop (2hrs) - NDC Oslo June 2020.

• WORKSHOP: Progressive Web Apps Workshop (2hrs) - Brighton WordUp June 2020.

• WORKSHOP: WordPress REST API with AJAX Forms and Pages - WordCamp Denver, June 2020.

• WORKSHOP: WordPress REST API with AJAX Forms and Pages - WordCamp Kent, Ohio May 2020.

• TALK: What is the WP REST API and how can I use it to make forms and pages that don’t need to do be reloaded? - WordUp Brighton May 2020.

• WORKSHOP: WordPress REST API and AJAX Forms - WordCamp Geneva March 2020 [EVENT CANCELLED due to virus concerns :(

• TALK - WP-HTML: The marriage of WP and JS Frameworks for expansion, ubiquity and profit - WordCamp Vienna February 2020.

• WORKSHOP: WordPress REST API - WordCamp Vienna February 2020.

• TALK: Progressive Web Apps - Brighton WordUp November 2019.

• TALK: Decoupled WordPress (code along style) - WordCamp Dublin October 2019.

• TALK: JWT and Authentication - WPHooked London September 2019.

• TALK: Decoupled WordPress and WP Components - WordCamp Brighton August 2019.

Udemy is a great learning platform and having sales at least once a month, courses can be purchased for ~ £15/$15 USD.

June 2024: Pytest Cookbook - Using hooks to create plugins

The following have now been retired.

• WordPress REST API and AJAX Forms/Pages - DEMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eubhbcGH_Ws&t=6s (paid)
• Progressive Web Apps - DEMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_lHvNL0gkw (paid)
• WP-HTML: decoupling WordPress to any HTML platform using Web Components and the WP REST API. This also enables HTML plugins for non-WP Sites - https://www.udemy.com/course/powerful-html-pages-using-wordpress-component-architecture/ (free)
• Stylish Dynamic Web Forms with jQuery validation - https://www.udemy.com/course/ready-to-use-form-validation-templates-with-jquery/ (free)

These are video courses that cover work through official documents to help other developers, learn in public and show prosepective employers not just what I know but how I learn and how I communicate technical matters to others.

There are also some specific videos explaining solutions to set ups other developers may encounter.

• ✔️ HIGHLY-FUNCTIONAL-WEBCOMPONENTS: A video course based on the workshop I gave at NDC Oslo June 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC-JTqQTv2k&list=PLsszRSbzjyvkQwzrJobroRl7z7MfSlePa

• ✔️ WP Plugin Boilerplate: I havea video series to explain WP Plugin Boilerplate using a scaffolded out project that demonstrates the use of MySQL, wp_nonce, REST API, forms and how to redirect pages to plugin templates to make the plugin theme independent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ9ktD4JOfs&list=PLsszRSbzjyvn-RQr4dEjrgnTne2HcJKee

These include Community Kitchens, looking after my puppy Leo, a Red Fox Labrador, occasional partner dancing and DIY.