About

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Hello there and welcome to my site! My name is Jamie Sutherland.. As the domain name suggests and this is my site for storing loads of random information that I find useful. It might also get used to showcase some work that I end up producing. Anyhow, I’ll fire in some stuff about me below.

If you’ve read some of the posts on this page then you my have already guessed that I’m a bit of a geek. I enjoy playing with new technologies to see if they can make life easier that little bit easier.

I live in a little place called West Clifton which is 10 miles from Scotlands capital, Edinburgh. I’ve lived in and around this area all of my life and love it. I’m from a family of four, Sandy, Marjory and my sister Kayleigh and have a girlfriend of many years Tricia.

I was schooled at East Calder Primary School, West Calder High School and I’m a graduate of Heriot-Watt university with a 2:1 in Computer Science.

I enjoy a wide range of activities (anything to get a break from the computer really)  but as of late my main pastimes would be playing 5-a-sides football, mountain biking or a leisurely trip to the pub with good friends

I’m currently employed as a software developer / product manager at Bloxx. We develop filtering technologies for the internet and currently focus on HTTP/HTTPS traffic. Technologies used to build our current products are varied across it’s iterations. We work with Linux operating systems (RedHat/CentOS/Ubuntu) and use a wide selection of languages to get the job done. C/C++/Perl/Bash for backend systems. PHP/Perl/Javascript/HTML/CSS for the UI and we link these with sqlite and postgres databases.

Although I was initially employed as a software developer, when I joined, the protocol was to complete three months in support identifying issues, liasing with the clients and producing bug fixes. This three months turned to 2 and a half years with the latter half being employed to manage the support team.

With support under control with new upper management and an excellent replacement to take my role, I could get back to my original position.

Currently I am managing a small team working on a product for the company to increase its portfolio which I will update this page with once it’s released.