---
id: about-overview
area: about
level: 1
title: "About"
claim: "Sam has shipped software for twenty-five years — self-taught, through a non-IT working life and five years overseas — and now builds AI systems, the platforms under them and the devices at the edge."
confidence: running
period: "1999–"
tech: [NixOS, Neovim, Python, JavaScript, React, Go, HTMX]
metrics: [{label: "years shipping software", value: 25}, {label: "years spent overseas", value: 5}, {label: "non-IT roles worked", value: 6}]
artefacts: [{type: doc, label: "Non-IT working history", url: "content/about/l3/about-non-it-work.md"}, {type: doc, label: "Education", url: "content/about/l3/about-education.md"}, {type: doc, label: "Interests — one honest line each", url: "content/about/l3/about-interests.md"}]
public: true
last_verified: 2026-10-26
tags: [about, narrative, background]
---
The other five areas prove what can be built; this one explains where the judgement came from. The narrative, including 2020 to 2026, is on the [narrative page](about-narrative.md).