Founder & Cloud Consultant PAYE → £100K+ Self-Employed SWE | DevOps | Platform Engineering
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Joined December 2023
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I transferred all of my pensions to my Trading212 SIPP
Aviva - transferred in 24 hours
Scottish Widows - transferred in 1 week
Smart Pensions - still waiting 3 weeks later
what on earth is going on @smartpensionuk ?
funny because i was discussing a couple weeks back with my mrs the only reason stopping me relocating to bath is there is not enough supermarket selection outside of the central area
oh and the copper internet
26 interview processes since Jan 2025. 5 offers, 18 rejections, 2 withdrawn, 1 ghosted. Here are 18 of them, with the salary and how far I got. Thanks Claude for pulling the data from my emails for me.
FAANG (3 processes, 0 offers)
FAANG 1, £170k: rejected after the full loop (assessment, phone interview, 5-interview loop, plus an extra interview)
FAANG 2, £140k: rejected after the assessment and phone interview
FAANG 3, £200k: rejected after the coding interview, even though I got it all right - had weird vibes off of the interviewer
Big cyber and cloud vendors (3 processes, 0 offers)
Cyber 1, £175k: made the final 4th round, they hired an internal candidate who relocated from the US
Cyber 2, £150k: rejected after 4 rounds
Cyber 3, £130k: rejected after one interview - this role wasn't really a good fit tbh which we agreed during the interview
UK, EU and US tech and fintech (8 processes, 0 offers)
FinTech 1, £125k: rejected after 2 rounds (live technical exercise)
FinTech 2, £118k: rejected at the final stage, 6th round
Energy SaaS, £100k: rejected after the final (threat modelling, pair coding, behavioural)
FinTech 3, £95k: rejected after the technical interview - 3rd round
Cloud Platform, £95k: didn't get past the recruiter screen
Insurance, £90k: rejected after the pairing task - 3rd round
AI Chip, £90k: rejected after the code pair and technical - 2nd round
Cyber SaaS, £75k plus bonus plus on-call: rejected after round 1
Defence tech (2 processes, both withdrawn)
Defence Tech 1, £105k: withdrew
Defence Tech 2, £75k to £105k plus equity: withdrew before the technical test because of the London on-site requirement
Consultancies (2 processes, 1 offer)
Consultancy 1, £100k: OFFER (2 stages and a case study)
Consultancy 2, £90k: rejected
The other 8 (4 offers, 3 rejections, 1 ghosted) were mostly contract roles - which is what I eventually pursued
Crazy to think before 2025 I had almost 100% interview success rate
The tech job market has changed a lot
Opportunity is in front of you, not behind you, keep going
I’m glad I self host on a VPS
You can’t really trust these big companies any more when everyone is deploying with AI - staff members are bound to slack off and just merge whatever
An urgent notice from the Railway team
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Cmon guys it’s half term ffs have a day off
🚨 PHP warns of two critical vulnerabilities as emergency patches arrive tomorrow
The PHP security team will release updates on October 21 at 14:00 UTC for two vulnerabilities, each rated 9.2 under CVSS v4.0.
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Security researchers identified the flaws as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 and described them as remote code execution vulnerabilities reportedly affecting PHP versions 5 through 8.
PHP has not yet confirmed the affected versions, exploitation requirements or fixed releases.
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The vulnerabilities were reportedly leaked before their planned disclosure. Researchers said they have not observed active exploitation, while PHP warned it may release the patches early if technical details become public or exploitation is detected.
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Administrators should identify PHP installations now and prepare to apply the updates as soon as they become available.
All of these high stakes Banks are only building infrastructure in one zone in a single region???????????
The region has 3 zones and no one thought hmm we should probably ensure we have maximum availability??????
BREAKING: Multiple online services are down or 'experiencing issues.'
Google Cloud has reported "issues" in its western Europe region affecting dozens of websites, including; Revolut, Royal Mail and HSBC.
Latest updates ➡️ trib.al/M16q5UZ
📺 Sky 501
I’ve been making career based content on all forms of social media since lockdown
I’d estimate that less than 10% of the people who approach me for help actually follow through
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no idea how so many people make vulnerable apps with ai tbh
only at 75% of the way through my mvp did i start checking it myself, found some odd things
then i created a security skill in claude and ran some sec tools. i found 3 critical and 2 highs, fixed again with claude
❗️ The CEO of a South African coffee chain vibe-coded an internal dashboard for all of his 132 stores, only it had one big flaw: all of the sensitive internal data was stored in the source code of the login screen.
The dashboard URL was discovered through employees posting photos of their laptop screens on Instagram.
The CEO said he had discovered Claude and was "almost certain" that software itself will soon "become free," they said.
