Hi, I'm Mark Stephenson
Here, you will find short snippets of madness and lengthier rants.
My interests are:
- Databases
- Tech Startups
- Lean Startups
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Leaning
- Application Development
- (Ruby on Rails, Angular, Coffee, Haml, RSpec, Postgres, Heorku, AWS)
- Psychology
I’m an avid Audible fan, and typically ‘read’ a book a month which I will share here.
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I have spent 15 years working in the technology industry; 10 years of that within the Business Intelligence and Data Analytics context.
After contracting for 7 years I decided to build my own company, and joined an accelerator programme (Searchcamp). I had three great months learning from the brightest and best about how to build a lean startup, and how to fail fast in order to accelerate evolution. This lead to the acquisition of EventSneaker (great name, right?) within 6 months by a London based event startup, where I currently work as Head of Technology.
In addition to running the team and advising on matters of strategy I try to make time to dabble in the tech stack (RoR and a little AngularJS amongst other treats). Outside of this, I try to spend as much time as possible with my beautiful wife and son.
Recently I have engaged with the Stanford Machine Learning MOOC and am thoroughly enjoying the challenge that AI and associated fields present.