A Mars rover, a careers fair, and a hundred future developers
This week I stood at a primary school careers fair, on what turned out to be one of the hottest days of the year so far, and tried to convince children between the ages of four ...
JAMIE LORD
STAMFORD, LINCOLNSHIRE
[ jl ]
Solution Architect at CDS
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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'm writing a book about.
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Data residency was the wrong question
The Dutch government today blocked Kyndryl’s acquisition of Solvinity, the IT company that operates DigiD. DigiD is the digital identity system roughly fourteen million Dutch ci...
cloudflare
The military aircraft tracker I built for an audience of one
At about half past eleven one evening this week I noticed a US Navy E-6B Mercury orbiting over the North Sea. Not “noticed” in the way of someone who happened to look up — I was...
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2026
Mars Rover Coder — a programming game for a primary school careers fair
HTMLCSSvanilla JSCloudflare Workers -
2026
Daily film guessing game (Spotle-style)
React 18TypeScriptXStateTailwind CSSViteCloudflare Pages -
2026
trolli — budget-aware weekly meal planner and shopping list
React 19TypeScriptViteHonoCloudflare Workers -
2026
Carcassonne-style procedural tile landscape generator
TypeScriptViteWave Function CollapseHTML Canvas -
2026
Rummikub with a twist — browser game with move suggestions
React 19TypeScriptVite
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Where I've worked
2023 →
CDS UK
Solution Architect
· now
2021 – 2023
HeadClear
Chief Technology Officer (co-founder)
2020 – 2021
Advanced
Principal Software Engineer
2019 – 2020
Mitrefinch
Developer → Delivery Team Lead
2016 – 2019
IFS
Software Engineer → Senior
Built by hand in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
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