Hi, I’m Scott
I’m a product engineer, currently operating through OES Technology as an AI & Svelte consultant. I’m building Svortie, a platform for running AI agents with scheduled workflows, MCP servers, and sandboxed environments. I also author MCP tools and ship open-source developer tooling. Previously I was an engineering team lead at XtendOps, leading 12 developers across two product teams building AI customer service agents. For specialised Svelte consulting services, visit svelteconsulting.dev.
I create content written in the blog here and educational videos supporting the written content.
I’m a second career dev that re-skilled from a VBA analyst developer role into web development.
For 5 years now I have been working in Svelte and SvelteKit, holding workshops and organising events with the other organisers of the Svelte Society London group.
Check out the speaking section for more details about those!
These days I’m deep into AI tooling, building MCP servers, working with the Claude API and Agent SDK, and exploring multi-agent workflows. My web development background (8 years in the industry) means I care about performance, accessibility, and developer experience in everything I build.
Sectors I have worked in:
I have over ten years of experience working for large corporate organisations in Finance (Risk, Asset Management), Property, Oil & Gas and the Lloyd’s insurance market.
As a web developer I’ve worked in government digital transformation, creative digital, content management, and business process outsourcing. I now focus on AI tooling, agent orchestration, and open-source developer AI tooling.
My personality
I find it hard to identify my traits, so instead, I took the 16Personalities test; here are my results.
I like to think of myself as an easy to approach and friendly person.
My interests
I’m all in on AI tooling right now, building MCP servers, Claude Code workflows, and seeing how far I can push multi-agent systems.
I’m obsessed with watching anything to do with mechanical engineering and restorations on YouTube. Also fallen down the mechanical keyboards rabbit hole!
Playing Borderlands 4 on the Steam Deck at the moment, but still think BL2 is the best one 😊
Music I listen to
I’m a massive Drum and Bass fan. I have a Spotify playlist I like to listen to for coding with the title for which I stole from Phil Hawksworth:
Other playlists I’d recommend would be the UKF Drum and Bass Top 100:
Podcasts I listen to
I listen to many podcasts, here are some that I get a lot of value from that aren’t all code related:
Prof G Markets
Ed Elson breaks down what’s moving the capital markets with Scott Galloway joining every other episode or so. Great for keeping up with what’s happening in tech and the markets.
Random But Memorable
From the makers of 1Password for security advice and a round-up of the latest security news.
The AI Fix
Mark Stockley and a guest will always bring some laughs with their weekly findings with what’s going on with AI.
Tech Brew Ride Home
A daily 15-minute tech news summary. Silicon Valley’s water cooler podcast, perfect for the walk to the shops.