About the Author
Mike Bursell is a UK-based security, distributed systems, and open source architect and enthusiast who has recently found himself coding again.
He studied English Literature and Theology at King's College Cambridge, where he also sang in the choir, met his wife, spent too much time playing computer games, got into online communities, played some rugby badly, read lots of books, and spent as much time as feasible punting on the River Cam. After graduating in 1994, he joined Cambridge University Press to work on electronic publishing with CD-ROMs but quickly moved to creating and running their nascent website, learning Perl and Java to provide automation.
His subsequent jobs for a variety of global companies fostered his interests in distributed systems and security. An MBA from the Open University in 2001 expanded his horizons into the interface between engineering, systems, and the business world—a milieu he has inhabited ever since in roles spanning software engineering, systems architecture, patent creation, and product management.
Mike is a passionate open source advocate and a contributor and Correspondent at Opensource.com. He is co-founder with Nathaniel McCallum of the open source security project Enarx (https://enarx.dev) and has even written code for it in Rust. He speaks globally at conferences (when not in pandemic lockdown) and maintains the security-leaning blog Alice, Eve and Bob at https://aliceevebob.com. Since mid-2021, he has been CEO and ...
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