What is this site all about?

This site is really for me to document what I am playing with, learning and doing with technology. I hope it will be useful for people at some point if they happen to be exploring some of the same things I am.

Expect anything from Enterprise focused topics, and technologies - right through to consumer technology if that is what I happen to find interesting at the time I write. The majority of the content though is liekly to be Enterprise IT Infrastructure (both on premises, in cloud or anywhere else it may make sense), as that is typically where my head is thinking.

Typically I will try to cover the technology, what I am doing with it, and what I think it does to “make life better”.

Who am I?

My name is Oliver Bassett. I have always had a passion for technology and how it can be used to improve things - whether that be our lives or our work. It started early in my life when my dad bought me a Dick Smith Fun way into electronics kit. I think this is what really sparked my desire to understand how things work, and then how to use those things to make life better (ok so maybe the Dick Smith kit wasn’t so much about making things better)

Then I discovered comptuers, got a modem and then starting connecting to other systems. This is where the learning of computers really kicked off.

In my personal life this was intially gaming, and then hacking the games (in those days it wasn’t too hard, search meomry for values, note down address, change values in game, repeat, find the addresses that match - edit them to what you want - success) to building websites and just learning - right through to creating music and these days it is home assistants and smart phones.

In my work life, this has led me to a carreer in IT, where I have done everything from Home PC support on a Compaq helpdesk, through to delivery and consulting roles in IT Infrastructure, right through to Pre-Sales roles where I try to help my customers understand how to improve their business through the use of the technology in the portfolio of my employer (which is technology I believe helps, or I wouldn’t be employed there).

I currently am employed by NetApp, and so a lot of my work currently is focused around cloud computing, hybrid IT Infrastructures, and really optimising access and workflows around data, and data management.

Why “The Tattooed Technologist”?

I love a lot of things about Japanese culture. At some point this lead me to get a number of Japanese based Tattoo’s. Although having a lot of tattoo’s is not uncommon these days in tech, it is something that got me enough comments that the name came to me, and in particular I liked the alliteration.