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role: Solution Architect at CDS · loc: Stamford, Lincolnshire

Building software, for the love of it.

Architect, developer, or consultant — whatever the work calls for. My toolkit evolves; right now that's mostly Cloudflare's Developer Platform, which I've written a book about.

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## ~/projects all_142 →

cutiemail — a small, self-contained mail server in TypeScript, built from the byte up 2026

TypeScriptNode.jsSQLiteSMTPIMAP4rev2DKIM/SPF/DMARC
cutibrowser — a from-scratch desktop browser for the document web, with zero runtime dependencies 2026

TypeScriptNode.js FFImacOS frameworks
RADAR — an air-traffic-control scope over live ADS-B data 2026

Node.jsSQLitevanilla JSHTML CanvasADS-B Exchange
What's that flight? — the aircraft overhead right now, as a map of your sky 2026

TypeScriptCloudflare Workersvanilla JSADS-B Exchange
world — an infinite, procedurally generated natural world to walk and fly through 2026

TypeScriptThree.jsWebGPUViteWeb Workers

## ~/work full_timeline →

2023 →CDS UK — Solution Architect · now
2021 – 2023HeadClear — Chief Technology Officer (co-founder)
2020 – 2021Advanced — Principal Software Engineer
2019 – 2020Mitrefinch — Developer → Delivery Team Lead
2016 – 2019IFS — Software Engineer → Senior

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138 posts · 142 projects · archive since 2013 — jl