I am currently the Design and Technology Director at Digital Innovators, a UK based company specialising in providing young people aged 16-24 access to fulfilling career opportunities.

I started my career working as a software engineer in the telecommunications industry. I now only program as a hobby and as a way of understanding and staying ahead of technologyI have been in the business of software all of my life (including 32 years at IBM United Kingdom) and worked with clients from around the world and across multiple sectors. During this time I have built up a wealth of experience in the development and application of software to solving business problems.

My interest now, reflected in where I have started taking this blog since mid-2019, is in the impact of technology on our everyday lives and how it affects us all, for better or worse. I write about the issues facing the tech industry, especially with respect to artificial intelligence, privacy and the impact of the internet and social media. Given my background I look at this through the lens of architecture, strategy and design and the importance of these in building workable and human focused IT solutions. I see myself as being a practitioner of technorealism, someone who adopts a critical examination of how technology might help or hinder people to improve the quality of their lives, their communities, and their economic, social, and political structures.

I am co-author, with Peter Eeles, of the book The Process of Software Architecting.

My other passion is photography which you can find on my other blog at petercripps.photography.